Quotes About Fighting Odds

#1. Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

Bonnie Tyler

#2. You have to fight the odds in life to be able to reach a greater height.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. We never ask for the bad that happens to us, but it happens. The true test of character is how we go on, what we take from it.

Michelle M. Pillow

#4. So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

Lewis Carroll

#5. Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

Brian Tracy

#6. 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.

Diane Duane

#7. Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.

Janet Hagberg

#9. You don't have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day's work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.

John Wayne

#10. When you are in a combat situation, you mustn't let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your head clear and you will be one step ahead of your attackers.

Aaron B. Powell

#11. Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

#12. I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

Ian McEwan

#13. As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

Walter E. Williams

#14. I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

Midge Ure

#15. My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

Judy Gold

#16. I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.

Victoria Scott

#17. I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Jack Kirby

#18. Truth be told, Raisa had no intention of marrying anyone any time soon. Her mother was young - she would rule for many years yet, so there was no need to rush into the confinement of marriage.

Cinda Williams Chima

#19. As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

Ahmed Zewail

#20. I'm ready. I feel like I can't be beat. You have to feel like that being a fighter. I just feel like this is a bigger type of energy. I feel like I've beaten so many odds. I feel kind of invincible. It's going to be a good fight.

Tavoris Cloud

#21. With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

Carolyn McCarthy

#22. To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Rebecca West

#23. The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

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

Franklin Knight Lane

#25. Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

David B. Haight

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

Winston Churchill

#27. Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

George Meany

#28. I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Blake Shelton