Against The Odds Quotes:

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

- Olivia Wilde

topic: Odds, Actors, Against The Odds

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Perseverance, Motivational Sports, Determination, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

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

- Arnold Palmer

source: FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Adversity, Inspirational Soccer, Inspirational Athlete

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Odds, Differences, People, Against All Odds, Against The Odds

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

- Robert Jarvik

source: "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Fear, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

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

topic: Motivational, Success, Meaningful, Odds Against You, Against All Odds

At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Jobs, Heart, Emotional, Against All Odds, Emotional Growth

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Success, Congratulations, Thinking, Odds Against You, Personal Achievement

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

- Michael Dorris

topic: Love, Loyalty, Grief, Against All Odds, Against The Odds

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cutting, Odds, Two, Odds Against You, Against All Odds

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Father, Odds, Risk, Destroying Everything, Against The Odds

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Odds, Giving, Against The Odds

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

- Amy Krouse Rosenthal

source: Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books

topic: Odds, Against All Odds, Stories, Against The Odds

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Movie, Odds, President Snow, Hunger For Food, Hunger Games Book

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

- Nikola Tesla

source: Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Ideas, Lightning, Flash, Diagrams, Against All Odds

It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Thinking, Odds, Heaven, Against All Odds, Against The Odds

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Life, Gambling, Odds, Against All Odds, Against The Odds

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

topic: Prayer, Honesty, Kids, Against All Odds, Toolbox

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.

- Alan Moore

source: "Watchmen". Comic book limited series by Alan Moore, September 1986 – October 1987.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Improbability, Fertilization

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

- William Petersen

topic: Odds, Law, Rebel, Against All Odds, Against The Odds

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

- Phil Keoghan

source: "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

topic: Odds, People, Underdog, Against The Odds

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

- Franklin Knight Lane

topic: Fighting, Men, Odds, Against The Odds

The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win.

- Julius W. Gates

topic: Army, Winning, Greatness, Against The Odds

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

- Jesse Jackson

source: 1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

topic: God, Odds, Perfect, Public Servants, Against The Odds

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

- Jesse Jackson

source: "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

topic: Running, Giving Up, Philosophical, Never Surrender, Against All Odds

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Suresh Srivastva, David L. Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University (1990). “Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

topic: Struggle, Self Confidence, Race, Against The Odds

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

- Marilyn French

source: Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

topic: Family, Children, Parenting, Nuclear Families, Family Values

I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

- Suze Orman

topic: Odds, People, Everyday, Against The Odds

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

- Herman Cain

source: "Historic!!! Republican Presidential Hopeful, Herman Cain, Currently Leading in Polls, Speaks With Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein of CYInterview: Agrees With Getting Washington to Lead By Example, Having the President, Vice President and Congress Take a Substantial Pay Cut, Much More". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. October 8, 2011.

topic: Careers, Odds, Accomplishment, Against The Odds

one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

topic: Baby, Odds, Knowing, Against The Odds

Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

- Cornel West

topic: Believe, Odds, People, Optimism And Hope, Against The Odds

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

- Zig Ziglar

source: Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

topic: Perseverance, Hard Work, Odds, Against The Odds

It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.

- Edgar Snow

topic: Strong, Army, Men, Red Army, Against The Odds

Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees. I say that as a grown-up moviegoer; behind me at a recent screening was a row of 10-year-old boys who were ecstatically in from the get-go. That's probably all that matters.

- Ty Burr

topic: Winning, Boys, Epic, Against The Odds

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

- Barry Bonds

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Lonely, Games, Odds, Lonely At The Top, Against The Odds

My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

- Peter Greenaway

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Strong, Exercise, Odds, Strong Person, Against The Odds

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

- Clark Gable

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Song, Men, Odds, Song And Dance, Dishonor

Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

- Robin Crow

topic: Responsibility, Odds, Vision, Accepting Responsibility, Against The Odds

To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.

- Flo Hyman

topic: Dream, Volleyball, Fashion, True To Myself, Against The Odds

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Against The Odds