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«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.»
Author: Arnold Palmer
(Golfer)
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Chance,
Effort
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Against All Odds, Against Me, at odds, entirely, even chance, felt, odds, quit, seemed, total
«Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.»
«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.»
Author: Benny Hill
(Comedian, Humorist)
| Keywords:
A-bomb, Against All Odds, a million, a million times, bomb, bombs, odds, plane, time bomb
«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 or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.»
Author: Clark Gable
(Actor)
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Against All Odds, dance of death, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, his mother, odds, pal, pals, song and dance, standards
«However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Against All Odds, clamor, clamoring, courageous, excuses, Great A, headed, judged, odds, sense of hearing, totally, unscientific
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«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.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
accomplish, against, Against All Odds, and the, at odds, courage, encountered, is not, maintained, measured, measure up, odds, opposition, oppositions, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, struggle, success, The opposition
«There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.»
Author: Paul Bryant
(Coach)
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, awfully, burned down, Burns, burn down, drummer, fight back, Laid Back, lay down, lay off, odds, players, run off
«Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.»
Author: Robert Jarvik
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, at odds, concept, developed, leaders, odds, poorly, The Visionary, visionaries
«A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, heavy, odds, training, winning
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