What else is love but mettle and blood?

I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like…

— Larissa Ione

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are…

— Oswald Chambers

I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live…

— Laurens van der Post

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get…

— El-P

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive,…

— David Rakoff

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

— Winston Churchill

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at…

— William Shakespeare

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

— Oswald Chambers

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

— William Shakespeare

I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult…

— Amy Pietz

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

— Ryan Reynolds