#sever

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ↗

— Josh Billings

#effect #fighting #him #his #man

It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs. ↗

— Grantly Dick-Read

#birth #joy #labor #pain #perseverance

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#perseverance #perseverance

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#perseverance #persistence #persistence

Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries ↗

— Howard Tayler

#rules-to-live-by #sci-fi #ship #subverted-saying #violence

Persevere and get it done. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#get #persevere

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #ate #blow #catch #could

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#anything #facing #fears #just #mind

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#chances #get #many #me #off

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary