Top 988 Uphill Battles Quotes & Sayings

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Uphill, downhill, I like that.

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

Water flows uphill towards money.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

For many years prior to landing my big break with WWE, I learned a lot about uphill battles. I had to scratch and claw day after day for a really big dream that, at many times, seemed totally impossible.

I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

When you lose a goal so early, you've always got an uphill mountain.

I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Bowling would be more interesting if it were slightly uphill.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

The dialogue is out there, the veil has been lifted. We all know that there's a ways to go. We're still fighting uphill battles, and you just have to hone in on making change, one dialogue at a time, one course of action at a time.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it's so worth it.

Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

I can stick uphill ice, on my saucer

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

The road to success runs uphill.

God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't like to be mischaracterized. I just don't. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. Now do I sometimes fall in the gutter myself and look silly doing it? Of course. Some battles I win, some battles I lose.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

To have depression, it's such an uphill battle and I feel for everyone that has it because it's hard to have it.

You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.

I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

I'd like to think that I'm a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life... we have to fight our battles - our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles - and we're focused.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.