Rugged Quotes

• I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Trying, Plant, Embrace

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• You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Rocks, Climbing

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Stones, Smooth

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

  Tupac Shakur

  Struggle, Rapper, Trying

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• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  Valerie Solanas

  Community, Society, Units

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• Rugged strength and radiant beauty--
  These were one in Nature's plan;
  Humble toil and heavenward duty--
  These will form the perfect man.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Humble, Men

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.72

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• Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

  John Dryden

  Shining, Lines, Cadence

  "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" l. 15 (1684)

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

  Emily Carr

  Canada, Wonderful, Feels

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Mean, Love Is, Land

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• So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
  Till my trophies at last I lay down;
  I will cling to the old rugged cross,
  And exchange it some day for a crown.

  George Bennard

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn)

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• Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Looks, Photograph

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

  Matthew Henson

  Men, Climbing, Self

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• We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  African American, Baptists, Socialism

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• When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

  Van Morrison

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

  Song: See Me Through, Album: Enlightenment

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• Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

  Isabel Paterson

  Terrible, Right Now, Knows

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• Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

  Walter Scott

  Country, Hands, Land

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 6, st. 1

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• We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Battle, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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• There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it.

  Tracy Caulkins

  Workout, Thrill, Feels

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• Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

  Mark Twain

  Health, Imagination, Disease

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

  Maureen McCormick

  Men, World, Way

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• When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

  George Burns

  Funny, Here I Am, Age

  "Just You and Me Kid", 1979.

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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Selfish

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• I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

  Eva Green

  Character, Simple, Play

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• It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Angel, Endurance

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