Top 1200 Odds Against You Quotes & Sayings

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

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

The odds are stacked heavily against women in politics. They are up against strong, entrenched and largely patriarchal lobbies in political parties.

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

I always go against the odds.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

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

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

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

There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.

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

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

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

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

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

I like to be against the odds.

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

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

I aspire to be a role model for women to pursue their dreams no matter what odds are stacked against them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this. "Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good." "Our odds are too good

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.

We have a generation of women who think that they can just have IVF, and everything will be fine. The odds are against you once you start having IVF, and the odds are against you over the age of 35. And to pretend that it's easy to have a baby in your 40s or 50s is - it's just selling women a false dream.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

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

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

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

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

You don't quit just because the odds are against you.

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

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

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

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

We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.

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

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

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

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.

As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.

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.

We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

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

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

We were a bonded group of girls, and it was us against the world and us against the odds.

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.

As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

The odds are so against me, one mom and eight kids.

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

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

I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether it's organizing against big factories polluting their air or against big banks corrupting our economy and political system.

I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds. We do it, each one of us, against difficult odds. We do it because we care about our country. Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't thought that through.

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