Quotes About Overcoming Odds

#1. Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

Junko Tabei

#2. They say it is impossible but I've overcome the odds before.

Mauricio Rua

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

Lurlene McDaniel

#5. If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#6. Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

#7. I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

Harry Turtledove

#8. Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning's hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is forgotten, and the soul is inspired with faith in the future ...

Halldor Laxness

#9. Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Bill Bradley

#10. In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.

Dejan Stojanovic

#11. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#12. To grow - overcome and go beyond your barrier.

Debasish Mridha

#13. If you focus on the world's deficiencies and stop there, then you'll probably feel horrible and paralyzed. But why stop there? It's intellectually dishonest to focus on what's wrong with the world without acknowledging our rich history of overcoming incredible odds.

T.K. Coleman

#14. A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete.

Ai Weiwei

#15. There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.

Noam Chomsky

#16. Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Ted Koppel

#17. Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Kate Forsyth

#18. Great determination can overcome most odds.

Aesop

#19. The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.

Mark Helprin