Odds Quotes

563 Odds quotes by 470 unique authors

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what… — Lance Armstrong
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at… — Charles A. Murray
Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together. — Shania Twain
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… — Flo Hyman
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of… — Paul Hawken
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,… — Jeffrey Rowland
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
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… — Michael Cunningham
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that… — Sylvester Stallone
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Unknown Author
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek… — Camille Paglia
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in… — Alexander Alekhine
Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of… — Wes Fesler
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… — Michael Dorris
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother… — Clark Gable
You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but… — Unknown Author
They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against… — Bobby Fischer
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out… — Winston Churchill
Sometimes when I'm driving behind a big cement truck, I think of how the valve on the truck could suddenly open, spilling cement over my… — Jack Handey
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream — Junko Tabei
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden. — Rosie O'Donnell

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