Quotes About Odds Against You

#1. If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Brian Herbert

#2. 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

#3. Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do - send for reinforcements?

Robert Breault

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

Robert Breault

#6. I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.

Robert Paul Weston

#7. If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Jesse Jackson

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

Arnold Palmer

#9. If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

Dave Sitek

#10. when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.

Christian Rudder

#11. The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, 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 the rest of us.

Charles F. Glassman

#12. First check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.

Nicolas Darvas

#13. Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.

Edward Hirsch

#14. Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

Ali Shaw

#15. With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired." "Spock," McCoy said gently, "your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we're all going to be blown to hell." Spock hesitated, then nodded.

Diane Duane

#16. Quitting is an essential life tool, but nobody wants to be called a "quitter." Society values persistence and celebrates heroes who reach their goals against all odds. Sometimes fear of failure keeps you going even when your goal is unrealistic.

Anonymous

#17. You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

Garth Ennis

#18. Who did you lose?"
This girl is full of questions.
"Nobody." Or everyone - depends how I look at it. People don't really need to die to be gone.

Patricia Vanasse

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

Tom Osborne

#20. It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us - this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)

Injap Sia

#21. Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Jay Samit

#22. If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should do it.

Carl Preston

#23. Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can become an actor because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

Linda Cardellini

#25. You are doing a wonderful job. Parenting is mind-numbingly hard and no one is perfect at it and we'll all jack a thousand parts, yet somehow, against all odds, it will be enough.

Jen Hatmaker

#26. They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

#27. I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.

Amy Tan

#28. All life is three-to-one against, boychik, but you beat the odds.

Paul Levine

#29. 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.

Markus Persson

#30. You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

#31. Do not be sad that all odds are against you; be happy that your real purpose is by you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#32. Time and again, I've met or read about people who succeeded against all kinds of odds because they had passion. You're passion away to win!

Assegid Habtewold

#33. 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

#34. The next time someone says, 'The odds are against you,' remember: If you don't try, you forfeit the opportunity.

Frank Sonnenberg

#35. The odds are stacked against you until you realize: You make the odds.

Tehya Sky

#36. If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

J.B. Priestley

#37. As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies ... well ... babies are complicated.

Sarah MacLean

#38. You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

Abby Wambach

#39. When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

Olivia Wilde

#40. Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

Marta

#41. There was no decision to make, really. When, against all odds, the miraculous happened and the spaceship landed for you and the hatch opened, you got on. The end. It didn't even matter if you would wind up as food or taken on a trip to the stars. Some things were worth the risk.

Eli Easton

#42. 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.

Robert Johnson

#43. 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.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#44. But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.

Michael Thomas Ford

#45. 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.

Frank Mir

#46. But I can tell by watching you That there's no chance of pushing through The odds are so against us You know most young love, it ends like this. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, I WOULD BE SAD

Colleen Hoover

#47. Out of trillions of organisms that were alive at the beginning of time, are alive now and will be alive at the end of time, only one tampers with its food. You do not want to bet against those kinds of odds.

David Wolfe

#48. 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

#49. I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too
So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

David Levithan

#50. Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter."
The Grand Seneschal shrugged. "The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?"
"Fire," she said.
"He would not," said the Seneschal. "You know he would not.

Robin McKinley

#51. If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

Richard Dawkins

#52. If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#53. 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.

John Ensign

#54. 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.

Benny Hill

#55. 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

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

Kool Moe Dee

#57. 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

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

Winston Churchill

#59. Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

John Baldoni

#60. No matter how high the odds are stacked against you, you will never know the outcome unless you give it your best shot to tip the scales.

Riana Rain

#61. Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Jessica Lange

#62. It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.

Dick Van Patten

#63. Look in at the Drones and ask the first fellow you meet 'Can the fine spirit of the Woosters be crushed?' and he will offer you attractive odds against such a contingency.

P.G. Wodehouse

#64. No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Robert Greene

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

Deborah Kass

#66. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.

Khaled Hosseini

#67. 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.

Ilona Andrews

#68. 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.

Pharrell Williams

#69. 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.

Orison Swett Marden

#70. When your resolve to succeed is unshakable, no 'odds' can stand between you and your success. Look at our parents. In their own way, they have demonstrated before us: how to survive and prosper against all odds!

Vishwas Chavan

#71. If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

Aaron Levie

#72. To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

Twyla Tharp

#73. 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

#74. Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest.

E. Mellyberry

#75. When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and people will want to get on board. Why? Because everybody wants to be a part of something great.

Robin Crow