#underdog

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#impact #make-a-difference #underdogs #faith

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!' ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#because #being #being nice #enough #everybody

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. ↗

— Happy Chandler

#how #matter #much #peculiar #people

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog. ↗

— John Pilger

#household #i #political #sydney #underdog

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#art #believe #concern #gets #help

...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for.... ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#underdog #respect

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again. ↗

— Fred Durst

#back #down #embrace #everybody #genuine

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#comes #feel #like #london #over