Over Coming Odds Quotes

#1. I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

Brenda Lee

#2. The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Erma Bombeck

#3. We mistakenly believe that there is a lot of time left in the year, and we act accordingly. We lack a sense of urgency, not realizing that every week is important, every day is important, every moment is important. Ultimately, effective execution happens daily and weekly!

Brian P. Moran

#4. And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain.

C. JoyBell C.

#5. I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Greg Mortenson

#7. I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. Odds of a worm migration coming this way - about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help - about the same. Sleep well, young friends.

Bruce Coville

#9. The greatest stories are simple, but well told.

Tova Dian Dean

#10. There is an incredible feeling of strength that comes with walking through the fires of Hell and coming out with the prize. The prize, that part of oneself that is rescued, is the confidence that comes with facing down seemingly insurmountable odds and coming out better than when you went in.

Jaq D. Hawkins

#11. The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Elon Musk

#12. She has had a couple of lovers before, but honest to God, no one has ever felt as good, as perfect a fit, as him.

Sarah Rayner

#13. Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

Pharrell Williams

#14. He knew he was in there. He knew why. He knew that was his place to be. Because he knew he deserved to be there.

Kristen Ashley

#15. Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

Gloria Estefan

#16. Consciousness set goal independently, achieves them through will and evaluation of results

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

Emo Philips

#18. I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

Russell Kirk

#19. The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

Olivia Thirlby

#20. 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.

Phil Collins

#21. I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical.

Phil Klay

#22. You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Sonia Sotomayor

#23. The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

Cody Lundin