Rugged Quotes

89 Rugged quotes by 82 unique authors

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. — William Henry Ashley
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
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.… — Rick Warren
Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull. — Clive James
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… — Matthew Henson
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature — George Ade
The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets… — Laozi
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… — Rod McKuen
In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way… — Laozi
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
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… — Emily Carr
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes… — Giovanni Boccaccio
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable… — Sarah Lewis
Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of… — Daniel James Brown
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine… — Adam Zagajewski
In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as… — Charles R. Swindoll
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks… — Julian Castro
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the… — Charlie Pierce
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. — William C. Bryant
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. — John Dryden
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. — Florence King
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses,… — Theodore Roosevelt

Who Wrote These Rugged Quotes

82 authors contributed a total of 89 Rugged Quotes, led by these top contributors: