Top 1106 Insurmountable Odds Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

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

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Contaminated water is not a problem limited to Flint. Think of New Jersey, where school fountains were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Or the EPA's 33,000 superfund sites, which are highly-polluted areas that require long-term clean-up operations. The problem is so large that it feels insurmountable.

Luca Changretta's not someone you want to be at odds with. It's a fantastic opportunity for me, and he's a fascinating character.

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

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

I want people to have clean water. People in this country take it for granted, the ability to drink clean water whenever they want. There are millions of people far less fortunate in this world, and it's my duty to do as much as I can to change that. I don't see that as insurmountable at all.

It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

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

Look, for some players, pot odds should guide your decision making.

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

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

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Most people cherish their very existence and try their best to live a life worth living. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in our way, we somehow hope against hope and find a way to be as life-affirming as humanly possible! How? Love!

The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

I don't like to take people lightly even if the odds are against them.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.

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

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

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

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

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

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

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

I've always had a strong desire to prove myself against odds.

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.