Zdeno Chara

It's one of those things, like in sports and other situations in life, you're going to have some adversities and some challenges that are similar to the race. You go uphill one moment and then you go downhill, but that's life too. You've got to be willing to sometimes take it slow but keep going.

Slovak Athlete

Thomas Sadoski

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.

American Actor

Samuel Smiles

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.

Scottish Author

Carolyn McCarthy

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.

American Politician

Terence Crawford

When I got shot, it changed my life tremendously, and put me on the right path. And that's when everything started happening there for me with boxing and my family and just everything. My life just took a big turn and started going uphill.

American Athlete

John Schneider

Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.

Amy Klobuchar

It's an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions - particularly when they are too often presented with an a la carte lunch room choice of french fries or yogurt.

Debra Granik

All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life.

American Director

Iman Shumpert

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

Becky Hammon

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

American Coach

Using 'uphill' can imply the physical challenge or difficulty of an action.

Physical Effort

'Uphill' is often used to describe the literal slope of terrain, not a figurative action.

Literal Slope

As an adjective, 'uphill' describes situations requiring more effort than usual.

More Effort

'Uphill' can suggest progress is being made despite difficulties.

Progress Implication

'Uphill battle' means a struggle that is very challenging, but not impossible to overcome.

Metaphorical Challenge

In struggles or tasks, 'uphill' implies the need for persistence despite setbacks.

Persistence Context

Though challenging, 'uphill' situations can be seen in a positive light, reflecting the value of hard work.

Not Always Negative

 trails a profile that shows how much you're climbing and descending and a nice map that is downloaded on your phone as well there's a few things to talk about regarding trail etiquette always yield to the uphill rider just pull over and let them on by they're climbing and they're working hard you want to be respectful of the trail you

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 we can restore our planet back to health, and in doing so, protect all that inhabit it. Climate optimism is what gives us hope when things feel hopeless, is what sustains us in our pursuit of sustainability and is what fuels us in the uphill battle of transitioning away from fossil fuels.

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 An underdog isn't a kind of person. It's a mindset that can help you approach problems the way black sheep do. You can position people as underdogs by telling them they're not expected to succeed. And surprisingly, the uphill battle is often the one that people are most excited to fight.

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 to job loss -- perpetual job loss. Choosing to become a whistle-blower is an uphill battle. Their loyalty becomes into question. Their motives, their trustworthiness. So how can I, as a professor who really cares about her students encourage them to become whistle-blowers,

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 and a very close-knit family but women bikers who seek to emulate outlaw biker values face an uphill struggle many outlaw bikers don't take kindly to women encroaching on their domain it's a man's world period it's a

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 and far left of this photo are our fathers and alongside our very shy mothers and oral storytelling has always been a big part of our upbringing including the very factual tale of walking in the snow uphill both

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 vegan lifestyle livestock farmers in the amazon don't have to worry about where their water comes from but in arizona the largest reliable influx of water has to be pumped uphill from the colorado river

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 to expose the kids to one thing love. Love to the country, to the uphill and the downhill, to all the incredible creatures that surround us -- the animals, the plants, the insects -- love and respect

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 power the belief in true democracy and in the people runs deep proving that the African is capable of governing himself now the uphill battle for Ghana and for

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