Top 988 Uphill Battles Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

I see myself as a fighter, a gladiator. I have always fought my own battles.

I love battles. I think it's part of the Irish in me.

You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Don?t worry now about what you can?t change. Rest when you can so you?ll be ready for tomorrow?s battles

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.

A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

I don't want personal battles that take away from the team. I'm trying to win games.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.

We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

In life, there are always intense battles, and yet we must practise the lessons from the Gita.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

I like to play big battles with other guys.

There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

Being a Diva in a man's world, you're constantly in an uphill battle; pitching ideas, trying to get TV time, trying to get in-ring time, the whole nine yards.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.