Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up… — David Allen Copy Share Image
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and… — Amber Sealey Copy Share Image
Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen ones mettle. -- Jeffrey Fry — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him -… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight… — Andre Ward Copy Share Image
“Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
