Top 163 Rugged Quotes & Sayings

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

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

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.

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

The Celts were harder than anyone else, tougher, and rugged. We battered everybody.

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

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

Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.

I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.

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

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

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.

Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

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

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

Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him.

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

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.

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

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

We were rugged individualists in the Navy, but we all had health care.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just intense.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

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.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

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

On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music.

A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.

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

I like kind of the rugged bohemian kind of look.

Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world.

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

The moon is very rugged.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

It doesn't matter if it's soggy or it's sunny, there are so many lovely roads and awesome rugged countryside in Scotland - that's what makes it.

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

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

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I've been considering masculinity my whole life.

A lot of people were wondering how I'd perform against a big, tall, rugged fighter like Jeff Horn. I think I handled it with an A-plus.

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.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

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.