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Your Quotes for 7 June 2005 - Long Odds

On this day in 1980 the long-shot Temperance Hill won the Belmont Stakes at Elmont, New York. The horse paid $108.80 on a two dollar ticket, better than 54-to-1 against. Sounds like some of my projects!

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

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
     - Joyce Brothers

Life is a gamble at terrible odds; if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
     - Tom Stoppard

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
     - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
     - Leroy "Satchel" Paige, 1906 - 1982

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
     - Damon Runyon, 1884 - 1946

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