Rugged Quotes

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Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamentalâ€”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
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only… — James A. Garfield
President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by… — Ron Fournier
I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach… — Evelyn Glennie
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… — Maureen McCormick
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set… — Ezra Pound
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one… — Barack Obama
I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for… — Stephen Chbosky
You picked that out?â€ Caine asked. â€œThat pink, plastic toy?â€ I turned to look at him. â€œI happen to have been a little girl, once… — Jennifer Estep
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the… — Wallace Stegner

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