Even When The Odds Are Against You Quotes

#1. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

#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.

Wale

#3. Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

Anne Lamott

#4. Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Robert Breault

#5. The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Richard Branson

#7. I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds.

S.W. Southwick

#8. He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

Kim Harrison

#9. The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

Kool Moe Dee

#10. 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.

Marilyn French

#11. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

Emily Levine

#12. My company, Against All Odds Productions, has done print on demand; we were the first to do a book with a CD-ROM in the early 1990s. We do custom covers. It's always fun to do something new.

Rick Smolan

#13. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.

Juliet Marillier

#14. The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

Franklin Knight Lane

#15. Against all odds, beyond every logic, there is hope.

Shilpa Menon

#16. Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.

David G. Wells

#17. 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.

Barry Bonds

#18. God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

Kevin DeYoung

#19. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Winston Churchill

#20. 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.

Stephen Hawking

#21. I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when a big part of me is saying I should give up, I can't. Even when I don't want to keep going, I still do it

Rachel Joyce

#22. That man is my Arthur, a great warlord and a hero who fought against impossible odds to such effect that even fifteen hundred years later his enemies love and revere his memory.

Bernard Cornwell

#23. It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible connection--even one so strange as this--will outweigh all the details and triviality of the world that drive people apart.

Matthew Flaming

#24. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#25. I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Stephen King

#26. The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds.

Tehya Sky

#27. But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times
when the odds were so high against personal happiness
to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered.

Bernard Malamud

#28. I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Phil Keoghan

#29. I won't bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Charlie Munger

#30. It's us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it's absurd, at that moment I feel pretty damn good about our odds.

Lauren Oliver

#31. 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.

Lauren Kate

#32. Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother and against all odds, gotten him back.

Cassandra Clare