Top 37 Despite The Odds Quotes
#1. He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.
R. Scott Bakker
#2. The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.
Mark Helprin
#3. Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.
Vicki Courtney
#4. You're all still here because of an uncanny will to survive despite the odds, among ... other reasons.
James Dashner
#5. I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Tom Cruise
#7. Sometimes we are pulled along by our genetic legacies, and sometimes we pull them along behind us, despite all odds, into the lives we choose to make for ourselves.
Shukyou
#8. I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before. -Gabriel Allon
Daniel Silva
#9. Recognizing someone as a part of you before they've even become that person in your life, and knowing, without a doubt, that neither of you will ever be who are you in this exact moment ever again and believing, against all odds, you will continue to belong to one another despite that.
Emily Henry
#10. My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds.
Sarah J. Maas
#11. No one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.
Nancy Mairs
#12. To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.
Dillon Burroughs
#13. I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Agatha Christie
#14. Children who are ill, in their innocence and plight, teach adults many lessons, and one of those lessons is that 'Life must go on. Face it. Live it. Enjoy it. Despite all the odds.' That is bravery, in the eyes of a sick child.
Kcat Yarza
#15. But when I look at you, I just know instinctively, that despite the odds against you and although life will always find a way to test you, someday you'll have everything you want. Your ending will be a happy one.
Lang Leav
#16. The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
Lakshmi Mittal
#17. I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
Jerome Groopman
#18. When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.
Terry Pratchett
#19. Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
Yahya Jammeh
#20. Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
Watchman Nee
#21. The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
Matthew Lewis
#22. There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.
Robin Chase
#23. I know space is supposed to make me feel small and insignificant, but somehow it doesn't. What it makes me feel is special: I'm here, despite a million odds, in this moment, in this single point in time, with a boy I'm so completely in love with.
Suki Fleet
#24. Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.
Andrea Zuvich
#25. Never stop dreaming of moonbeams and fairy dust, shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens, a happier life and a better world.
James Gormley
#26. A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#27. Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.
Laurence Gardner
#28. I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.
Ryan McGinley
#29. Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.
Leonard Michaels
#30. The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen ... In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?
Allen Ginsberg
#31. Against all odds and despite all evidence to the contrary, still we trust that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, of our personal tunnel anyway.
Diane Schoemperlen
#32. Does she make the risk worth it?"
Despite the years they'd been at odds, they still understood each other perfectly. Ian didn't hesitate to answer.
"It isn't a matter of choice, Benjamin."
The other man sighed. "It never is.
Kristen Callihan
#33. Dreamers should reach out for the highest potential, they should yearn for more despite the odds.
Euginia Herlihy
#34. Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory.
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#35. My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.
Jimi Hendrix
#37. Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
Maria Montessori