Hardiness Quotes

• Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

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  Philip Sidney

  Courage   Men   Skills  

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.68

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• No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.

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  Jack Ma

  Successful   Training   Resilience  

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• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

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  Emily Eden

  Keeping Secrets   Fool   Instinct  

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

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• Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more old-fashioned terms we might simply call character.

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  Julius Adams Stratton

  Character   Men   Self  

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• If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.

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  Bernard Levin

  Government   Self   People  

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• Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

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  William Shakespeare

  Mother   Coward   Hardness  

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195

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• Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

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  Louise Wilder

  Winter   Teeth   Celebration  

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks

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• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

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  George Santayana

  Men   Dignity   Despise  

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.230, Рипол Классик

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• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

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  Washington Irving

  Fear   Real   Humble  

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.95, Penguin

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