Quotes about Against the Odds

Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds. Votes: 5

I like to be against the odds. Votes: 4

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds. Votes: 4

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. Votes: 4

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds. Votes: 3

I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life. Votes: 3

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds. Votes: 3

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. Votes: 3

Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way Votes: 3

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. Votes: 3

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. Votes: 3

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions. Votes: 3

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years. Votes: 2

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. Votes: 2

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are. Votes: 2

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds. Votes: 2

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. Votes: 2

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. Votes: 2

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us. Votes: 2

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams. Votes: 2

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. Votes: 2

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. Votes: 2

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded. Votes: 2

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Votes: 2

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president. Votes: 2

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb. Votes: 2

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues. Votes: 2

My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity. Votes: 2

BE an accomplisher against all odds. Votes: 0

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. Votes: 0

Lessen the odds are stacked against you, Use Cosmic Ordering. Votes: 0

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Votes: 0

I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds. Votes: 0

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds. Votes: 0

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong. Votes: 0

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk? Votes: 0

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him. Votes: 0

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds. Votes: 0

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind. Votes: 0

It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere. Votes: 0

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin. Votes: 0

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Votes: 0

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it Votes: 0

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds. Votes: 0

In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! Votes: 0

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it. Votes: 0

Characteristics of strength and individuality requires confidence and self-assurance to choose what is right against all odds. Votes: 0

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. Votes: 0

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral. Votes: 0

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time. Votes: 0

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. Votes: 0

One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one. Votes: 0

Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds.How? Nobody knows.Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes... Votes: 0

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. Votes: 0

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me. Votes: 0

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. Votes: 0

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. Votes: 0

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason. Votes: 0

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. Votes: 0

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph. Votes: 0

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. Votes: 0

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do "” send for reinforcements? Votes: 0

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here. Votes: 0

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. Votes: 0

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! Votes: 0

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society. Votes: 0

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. Votes: 0

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds. Votes: 0

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story. Votes: 0

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it. Votes: 0

I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding. Votes: 0

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game. Votes: 0

You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger. Votes: 0

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring. Votes: 0

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. Votes: 0

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up. Votes: 0

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens. Votes: 0

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. Votes: 0

May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you'll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now. Votes: 0

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life. Votes: 0

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. Votes: 0

But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother. Votes: 0

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her. Votes: 0

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God. Votes: 0

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds. Votes: 0

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth. Votes: 0

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. Votes: 0

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. Votes: 0

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. Votes: 0

Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision. Votes: 0

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined. Votes: 0

Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face. Votes: 0

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Votes: 0

A true spirituality is convinced that, against all odds, ecstasy, not misery, is our destiny. Spirituality is baptism by immersion in the stunningness and promise and beauty of life. Votes: 0

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. Votes: 0

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. Votes: 0