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Quotes About Uphill

If he hadn't dragged me, I would never have made it up the hill.
~ Maureen Johnson
marched uphill to meet her demise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no
~ Jordan B. Peterson
When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Then, when you get and look around, you sort of say, 'Wow, the altitude's kinda thin up here!'
~ Ron Howard
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
Si la vida es un recorrido, se trata de un recorrido siempre cuesta arriba.
~ Susanna Tamaro
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
~ Mitch Albom
Last apricot light flooded landward and brought their shadows uphill, past the lifeguard towers, into terraces of bougainvillea, rhododendrons, and ice plant.
~ Thomas Pynchon
If I were going uphill, I was relatively happy since I would sooner or later be going downhill. Whereas, if I were going downhill, I wasn't all that happy because I knew I would eventually have to be going uphill.
~ George Meegan
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I had reached the end if the trail and the dead end of Willow Glen Road, which meant I had a long way to go, most of it uphill. I heard a bicycle, and because sometimes the world gives you what you want, the bicycle that streaked into view held Amiel.
~ Laura McNeal
In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up
~ Charles Dickens
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.
~ Charles Dickens
Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.
~ Becky Hammon
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
I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
~ Judah Friedlander
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
~ Andrew Goodman
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
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
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
It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.
~ Bob Ehrlich
Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
~ Jared Polis