Mettle Quotes (11 quotes)

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one’s mettle.”
― Jeffrey Fry

tags: blacksmith, heat, mettle, steel, strengthen, temper, trial-by-fire, uses

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“To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: character, clarity, defeat, failure, fall, falling, humanity, identity, insight, learn, limits, mettle, self-understanding, strength, test, testing, weakness

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“I would take a free and hopeful breath. It was settled. Fear would no longer be the weakness that undid me. I was seventeen and unsophisticated, and thought I could dig about in my soul for the mettle I needed, and that it would be enough.”
― Chantel Acevedo

tags: breath, enough, fear, free, hopeful, mettle, settled, soul, unsophisticated, weakness

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“Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

tags: hammer, heart, mettle

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

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertiveness, better, bettered, boldness, boy, boyfriend, boyfriends, boys, confidence, confident, courage, esteem, funny, girl, girlfriend, girlfriends, girls, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, improve, improved, in-secret-secretly, joke, jokes, kill, kill-herself-over, kill-himself-over, kill-oneself-over, kill-yourself-over, killed, killed-herself-over, killed-himself-over, killing-yourself-over, lover, lovers, man, men, mettle, nerve, phlegm, poise, romeo-and-juliet, satire, secret, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-murder, self-murders, self-possession, suicidal, suicide, suicides, wife, wives, woman, women

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

tags: death, mettle, soldier

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“ما أسرع الزمن،ما أقرب الآتي،ما أكثر التسويف”
― د.عائض القرني

tags: life, mettle, wisdom

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“Micro-mettle of women is stronger than herculean power of men.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

tags: herculean, men, mettle, power, women

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“In politics, there is no saint.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

tags: attributed-no-source, campaign-attacks, congress, election-primaries, mettle, political-science, politics, race, saint, smear-tactics

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“Nonetheless, ease and peace had left this people still curiously tough. They were, if it came to it, difficult to daunt or to kill; and they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive rough handling by grief, foe, or weather in a way that astonished those who did not know them well and looked no further than their bellies and their well-fed faces.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Visual Companion

tags: character, mettle, strength

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