Quotes About Odds Stacked Against You

#1. Today is one of those days that I feel very happy because you celebrate one more year of life.

Auliq Ice

#2. {Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted.

Kingsley Amis

#3. For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

Rumi

#4. The odds are stacked against

Anonymous

#5. I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.

Jonathan Ames

#6. Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

Garry Kasparov

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

Tehya Sky

#8. 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

#9. But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#10. Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

Homer

#11. The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

Ashwin Sanghi

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

Julia Roberts

#15. The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

Ari Fleischer

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

Tehya Sky

#17. The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#18. She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down.

Liane Moriarty

#19. I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Javier Bardem

#20. 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

#21. Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it

Damian Lillard

#22. The odds were incredibly stacked against a werewolf ever meeting his one-in-a-billion soul mate. There was no way Becker could have met his in the midst of an armed robbery. That kind of crap didn't happen in the real world.

Paige Tyler

#23. The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Eve Ensler

#24. 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

#25. A warrior doesn't focus on the odds stacked against her. She focuses on her heart, on her will to face the evil in her world and defeat it, and then she finds a way to do it. Lorelai

C.J. Redwine

#26. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Kool Moe Dee

#28. 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

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

Kevin DeYoung

#30. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

Sharon Salzberg