Quotes About Pluck

Man is a result of both his inherited instincts and his education. Among the miners and the seamen, their common occupations and their every-day contact with one another create a feeling of solidarity, while the surrounding dangers maintain courage and pluck. In the cities, on the contrary, the absence of common interest nurtures indifference, while courage and pluck, which seldom find their opportunities, disappear, or take another direction. Moreover

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

Few achievements in our day have made a greater impression than that of the adventurous missionary who unaided crossed the Continent of Equatorial Africa. His unassuming simplicity, his varied intelligence, his indomitable pluck, his steady religious purpose, form a combination of qualities rarely found in one man. By common consent, Dr. Livingstone has come to be regarded as one of the most remarkable travellers of his own or of any other age.'—British Quarterly Review.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

You would pluck out the heart of my mystery.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

fair. Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center of everything. No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

Money lost -- little lost. Honour lost -- much lost. Pluck lost -- all lost.

He understands that people will want to hear something, but not the truth: they'll want a story of perseverance and pluck, good overcoming evil, a homecoming song about a hero who brought light into dark places.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

THIS thing that she was doing required an infinite amount of pluck,—of that sort of hardihood which we may not quite call courage, but which in a world well provided with policemen is infinitely more useful than courage. Lord

Belief, courage and determination are the stuffs that champions or winners are made of. Thus, you've got to pluck up courage i.e. summon up enough courage and deal with whatever that dares to frighten or challenge you. ~Emeasoba George

Life is challenging. But, you shouldn't be overwhelmed by its challenges. Rather, dare to gut it out i.e. show pluck (spirited and determined courage or effort) and perseverance too even in the face of opposition or adversity. ~Emeasoba George

Your eyes, ma'am -- as well you know!! -- cried Help me ! What could I do but respond to the appeal?' 'Next you will say that it went much against the pluck with you!' said Miss Trent, justly incensed. 'No service I could render you, ma'am, would go against the pluck!' Her colour mounted, but she said: 'I should have guessed you would have a glib answer ready!' 'You might also have guessed that I meant it.

That gal's got gumption, don't she?" Dobro marveled. "That gal's got what it takes.

This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover, it's more selfish anyhow.

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow.

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.