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Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance. — Archie Frederick Collins

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

The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them. — Amber Sealey

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. — Jodi Picoult

Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Aaron Hill — Michael Tappenden

What courage, man! What though care killed a cat? Thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. — William Shakespeare

Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him. — William Shakespeare

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. — Dean Koontz

It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men — Jose De Alencar

I got an almost clear peripheral look at the guy's left fist. I might could recognize his pinkie." * — Darynda Jones

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle. — Theodore Roosevelt

Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer. — Paul Russell

A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man ... — Joey W. Hill

We are, I think, eager to show mettle we don't yet have. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey — Dinah

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world. — Bob Newhart

As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one's mettle. — Jeffrey Fry

Memories were a luxury for other children, not the Keramzin orphans. — Leigh Bardugo

I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results. — Carol S. Dweck

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. — Nelson Mandela

Life provides ample opportunity to test our mettle. When circumstances call for it, let's give ourselves a break and ask for help. — Gina Greenlee

The best photographs are made by the best people. — Morley Baer

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

Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff. — Nikki Sixx

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

The true test of a soldier's mettle is to see whether or not they will cling to what they believe in, even in the face of impending death. — Matthew S. Williams

Legacy proves ones mettle and one's karma. — Aporva Kala

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me! — Walt Whitman

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential. — Raymond Geuss