steel oneself

If going the seven miles by foot, you will have to cross the notorious and totemic “Bad Step” – a large, rocky outcrop above the water, which one must steel oneself to climb.

One must steel oneself to survive it.

Yet the coast had a subtle charm, against which it was prudent to steel oneself.

One would steel oneself against the fallacy that art, true art, might exist only for art's sake, when one had read "Sesame and Lilies" and "The Stones of Venice."

The youngster was right in the front now, and one had to steel oneself to the possibilities of the case.