Quotes About Challenges

I've had an incredible upbringing, but it was quite chaotic.

If you had met me as a kid you would have never predicted me to be a success. I had a pretty ropey upbringing and you might have thought I'd have gone the other way.

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

It's not how you start, even with a rough upbringing. It's what you make of it after.

I had a very rough upbringing.

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.

Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world's toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I'm hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.

Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.

When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.

A divorce will always change your life because it's such an upheaval. It's such a change.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

The more I hear about Eddie Izzard's political agenda, the more sympathetic I feel. I cheer him on in his cause, but I fear he faces an uphill battle.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.

I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!

Everything was always a pretty up and down for me. It's always been an uphill battle as far as getting respect goes.

To have depression, it's such an uphill battle and I feel for everyone that has it because it's hard to have it.

The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.

I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.