This collection holds 301 ruin quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Tom Clancy, Rita Ora and Bill Watterson.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Success will ruin your life.

Twitter... can ruin your life.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

I've done my part to 'ruin' Austin.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

It's so interesting how much a bad kiss can ruin a date.

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

I am a bit of a lad but don't tell: it will ruin my image!

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

I don't want to ruin my life with paparazzi and all of that.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

It's so rare when marketing and press doesn't ruin your movie.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I think people are forcefully dragging me under bad light to ruin my career.

Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It's poison.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.

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