Overcoming Great Odds Quotes & Sayings

In solitude, the deep silent, awakens the divinity of the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering. — Dalai Lama

With me, everything's right on the table. — Dennis Rodman

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor. — Thomas A Kempis

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery. — Magdi Yacoub

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming. — Freeman Dyson

Great determination can overcome most odds. — Aesop

The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race. — John Piper

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

In the legends of the saints and the prophets, either a desert or a mountain is pretty sure to figure. It is usually in the middle of one or on the top of the other that the vision comes or the test is met. To give their message to the world they come down or come out, but it is almost invariably in a solitude, either high or dry, that it is first revealed. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost — William Gurnall

Oh, I am just that fabulous. So sex furniture. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh. — Jenny Saville

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature. — Guillermo Del Toro

The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness. — Mark Helprin

They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible. — Tana French

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael