Quotes About Rugged Individualism

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Cory Booker

#3. We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism.

Kevin Swanson

#4. 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 notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

Charlie Pierce

#5. 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 everyone pitching in and pulling together.

Daniel James Brown

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

Francis Arinze

#7. I consider rugged individualism to be an exaggerated pretend posture of a person
struggling against emotional fusion. The differentiated person is always aware of others and the relationship system around him.

Murray Bowen

#8. When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way ...

Ayumi Hamasaki

#9. As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development,

Cher Wang

#10. Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.

Hortense Calisher

#11. Snowflakes fascinate me ... Millions of them falling gently to the ground ... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others ... The last of the rugged individualists!

Charles M. Schulz

#12. My first big break was 'White Chicks.' I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn't feel like I was ready for such an opportunity. It could only be the hand of God blessing me. I accept everything I'm given with great appreciation.

Rochelle Aytes

#13. Mankind divides itself into two classes,
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Guy Finley

#15. And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

Jack Dee

#16. Love is not at its fullest if one who lives is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has died.

Tang Xianzu

#17. Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

Rajneesh

#18. He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man.

Clifford D. Simak