The toughest challenge is to keep going in the face of overwhelming odds.

Sometimes we see people persevering in the face of what seem to be insuperable odds. When that happens, I can't help but think that through their Plus Factor information has been conveyed to them that even they are unaware of.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

I am not especially wise, but I am especially stubborn.

the odds are stacked against you.

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

Despite the mountain of adversity and the impossibility of the situation, she stubbornly keeps fighting

It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

As ill-luck would have it.

When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.

He allowed himself to feel that his stubbornness was courage. Maybe it was.

That dependable courage, which in spite of the most sudden circumstances, nevertheless allows freedom of mind, of judgment and of decision, is exceedingly rare.

You gotta be willing to be lucky.

When we are struggling against overwhelming odds, when we are pitting ourselves against the combined might of state apparatus and military power, we are sometimes subject to doubts — usually the doubts of those whose belief in the permanence of an existing order is absolute. It is amazing how many people still remain convinced that it is wise to accept the status quo.