Quotes About Fighting Uphill Battles

#1. I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Kim Gruenenfelder

#2. As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Eli Broad

#3. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Claude Debussy

#4. Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.

Philip Gulley

#5. Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#6. Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

Rumi

#7. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#8. Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

Ozwald Boateng

#9. Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

Paul Krugman