Odds Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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• We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

  David Viscott

  Hurt, Failure, Thinking

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen

  Tony Goldwyn

  Decisions You Make, Matter, Stuff

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• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Favors, Ifs

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• You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Winning, Men, We Will Win

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

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

  Kate Millett

  Character, Medicine, Spirit

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

  Enos Slaughter

  Running, Giving, Guy

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• There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Shrinking, Tomorrow, Accepting

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Men, Discipline

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

  Stanley Crouch

  Intelligent, People, Black

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• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  Fran Drescher

  Doctors, Favour, Reports

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• I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

  Harold Brodkey

  Sleep, Decay, Might

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• 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

  Michael Reagan

  Stars, Children, President

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• Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

  Richard Branson

  Flying, World, Crafts

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• I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

  Alan Shepard

  Thinking, Survival, Statistics

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

  Darrell Royal

  Marriage, Years, Lasting Love

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• Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Growing Up, Insane

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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

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• When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

  Camryn Manheim

  Confidence, Understanding, Overcoming

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• And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  God, Father, Men

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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• Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

  Jessica Lange

  Fall, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Nice, Successful, Succeed

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• I like to be against the odds.

  Barry Bonds

  Ties, Succeed, Against The Odds

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

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• 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

  Law, Rebel, Break

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