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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Business, Groups

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

  Emily Carr

  Patriotic, Power, Sublime

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

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• Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Horse, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.20, Beacon Press

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

  William C. Bryant

  Ivy, Tree, Mingling

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Serenade”

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