Uphill Struggle Quotes

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

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

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.

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

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

It is always tough to play against Norwich.

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

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.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

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.

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.