Top 100 Quotes About Uphill
#1. There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
Fulton J. Sheen
#2. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.
Dave Barry
#3. Because I've been around guys like that my whole life. He will always be a little boy who acts like a dog. Guys don't really change who they are at their core. Even if he wanted to, it would be a completely uphill battle, and he's not man enough for the journey.
Sheri Fink
#4. It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
John Gunther
#5. All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth
#6. If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.
Frank Luntz
#7. If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear,
then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination.
Angelica Hopes
#8. I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
Emma Watson
#9. Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.
Frederick Lenz
#10. It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.
Kim Gandy
#11. But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].
Elton John
#12. Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.
Scott Belsky
#13. The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.
David M. Brown
#14. If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
Henry B. Eyring
#15. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.
Nikki Rowe
#16. A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White
#17. There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb
Miley Cyrus
#18. As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion I was going uphill, and steadily as I got up it, life was ebbing away from me ... And now the work's done, there's only death.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
John Of The Cross
#20. The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn't intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down.
John C. Maxwell
#21. Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
Finn Wittrock
#22. Last apricot light flooded landward and brought their shadows uphill, past the lifeguard towers, into terraces of bougainvillea, rhododendrons, and ice plant.
Thomas Pynchon
#24. Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.
Clint Eastwood
#25. But the road only twists and turns. It is forever uphill, forever testing us.
Karina Halle
#26. Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
Gareth Gates
#27. 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.
Douglas Hofstadter
#28. Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.
Keith Devlin
#29. The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
Andrew Goodman
#30. 'Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned.
Jason Wiles
#32. Yes, sergeant. Without a fight. This man can make water run uphill and he has a commander. I love the idea of giving in without a fight. I've fought for ten years and giving in without a fight is what I've always wanted to do." Water
Terry Pratchett
#33. Was not -- should not -- a "career" be something splendid, wonderful, spectacular at the very least, something varied and exciting? Could my long, uphill struggle, through many quiet, uneventful years, be termed a "career"?
L.M. Montgomery
#34. A life is an uphill journey with expansion of happiness and great view of life.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.
Ray Liotta
#36. With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
Carolyn McCarthy
#37. The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards
#38. Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
Cormac McCarthy
#39. I can't wait till I have grandchildren. When I was younger, I had to walk to the rim of a crater. Uphill! In an EVA suit! On Mars, ya little shit! Ya hear me? Mars!
Andy Weir
#40. It was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
Mary Karr
#41. I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.
Conan O'Brien
#42. If the journey is uphill, you're probably on the right path.
Judah Lee Davis
#43. As I'm sure you know, the expression 'It's all uphill from here' has nothing to do with walking up stairs - it merely means that things will get better in the future.
Lemony Snicket
#44. They laughed. It took some effort so they had to stop walking to do it. Then they plodded toward the spiral staircase. It took them five minutes to walk the last two hundred feet. "Thank God," Roger said. "Stairs. Was worried I couldn't go uphill anymore.
Peter Clines
#46. Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And
Thomas Pynchon
#47. Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.
John Updike
#48. I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.
Jerzy Kukuczka
#49. The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.
Sarah MacLean
#50. It was hard work walking uphill. His muscles ached and the day was hot but Nick felt happy. He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs. It was all back of him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#51. I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter.
Kathryn Perez
#52. War is for everyone, for children too.
I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.
The best way is to come uphill with me
And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
Robert Frost
#53. If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.
Richard Bach
#55. I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.
Kyra Sedgwick
#56. 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.
Jim Crace
#58. It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#59. Nothing about my life is lucky - it's all about hard work, it is all an uphill struggle.
Emily Giffin
#61. Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.
Emily Giffin
#63. Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
Mandy Moore
#64. his life a constant uphill battle. No matter how hard he worked or how much he followed the rules, nothing ever changed, his life a monotonous country two-step. Quick, quick, slow, slow, run, run, walk, walk, a tedious, repetitive dance that never ended in a glorious crescendo.
Julia Bramer
#65. It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.
Patricia Briggs
#66. But breaking was beautiful. It hurt, and it was an uphill climb back to sanity, but you came back stronger, fiercer, and more solid than you were before. Tate had obviously been through it, I had, and eventually so would K.C., I thought.
Penelope Douglas
#67. The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#68. It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#69. 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
#70. If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?
Don Cheadle
#71. Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.
Rachel St. John-Gilbert
#72. The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
Al-Ghazali
#73. Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense
Tates Locke
#75. If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem.
George Vithoulkas
#77. The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.
Lance Armstrong
#79. You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.
Paul Harvey
#80. Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.
Jeff Galloway
#82. Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy ...
Sarah Dessen
#83. Fate has a way of letting us know when we have screwed up by turning everything into an uphill battle.
Ronnie Schiller
#84. You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.
Zig Ziglar
#85. In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they'd prefer.
Geoffrey Wood
#86. It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.
Bob Ehrlich
#87. The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
Terry Porter
#88. It's a long way," John said slowly, "ain't it? It's a hard way. It's uphill all the way.
James Baldwin
#89. Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
Ban Ki-moon
#90. Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
Ernie Els
#91. My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.
Emma Stone
#92. Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood.
Jasmine Warga
#93. I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.
Patton Oswalt
#94. Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.
Assegid Habtewold
#95. I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
Judah Friedlander
#96. To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
Lucretius
#97. Never forget the blood sweat and tears
The uphill struggle over years the fear and, trash talking and the people it was to, and the people that started it just like you
Linkin Park
#98. The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles
#99. What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.
Ralph Marston
#100. I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.
Justin Bog
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