Top 125 Battling Quotes

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that’s got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble and were battling, it should have been more serious and it became a bit too silly.

No matter the circumstances, just keep battling and keep battling.

I moved to New York – I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like ‘8 Mile.’ I used to rap battle.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Why did I write ‘The Emperor of All Maladies?’ A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

I’ve always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. ‘Bubba the Bear‘ shows up when I’m checking into a hotel, when I’m on a plane. I can’t get upset with people if they’re only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.

When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, ‘Well done.’ That’s Jesus!

I really enjoy being out on the court and going through the grind and battling. That’s something a video game can’t do for you.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

I learned to surf for ‘Soul Surfer.’ Surfing is like golf: You’re always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It’s magic.

I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I’ve always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla’s role in Tokyo, where he’s always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again – wouldn’t Godzilla become God? It would be called ‘Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.’

I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win.

‘American Idol‘ is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element – folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS’s ‘Survivor‘ and other shows that imitate it, the ‘American Idol’ contestants, of course, sing.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it’s allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life’s challenge is to work through that.

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn’t good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

By the end of the winter, I’m always battling too-tight pants. My solution: Eat lean protein, good grains, and veggies.

Kids in Spandex battling rubber monsters? It sounds beautiful. It does.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don’t even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served disadvantaged adolescents. When I became a recreation therapist, I worked with children battling severe mental illness.

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that’s my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that’s got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

I’ve always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

In some ways, backing the Trump campaign was even harder than battling for Brexit. I received almost total condemnation, including from many senior figures in my own party.

I felt like, ‘How do I fit in’? I’m battling. But then I never fit in!’… I thank God for somebody like Pharrell who stayed in my ear. For him, at that time, ‘Happy’ was everywhere; he didn’t have to share anything with me.

I’m battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

How do you develop? I think that’s about battling for every title. That’s something that is in Arsenal‘s history, and it’s in my history as well. And I want that to continue.

I’m always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or, best of all, battling to get money out of politics. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can’t take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you’re preparing your material for your opponent but when it affects your heart or when you let it get too personal… you got to have fun with it.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

We are at war, if you will, in the cyber domain now, constantly battling countries, such as Russia or China, who are trying to do everything from steal our technology to influence our elections to put out disinformation about the United States.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

It’s hard to be a team when you’re battling yourselves.

In some ways, backing the Trump campaign was even harder than battling for Brexit. I received almost total condemnation, including from many senior figures in my own party.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it’s something I’ve been battling most of my life.

I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody‘s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

Well, I’ve had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Sometimes you’ve got to tip your cap when they’re painting stuff on the corner. But you can’t give up, got to keep battling and make some adjustments.

I’m one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and intellectual, and the other part of me, at my core, I believe in magic in a certain way, and serendipity.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors – that’s life.

I’ve always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. ‘Bubba the Bear‘ shows up when I’m checking into a hotel, when I’m on a plane. I can’t get upset with people if they’re only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.

We all battling different things. Me? I’m just able to channel that through my music.

I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren’t prepared to understand that it’s a complex piece of machinery.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart‘s lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

I can’t remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.

Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

While this has been a private part of my family‘s life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I’ve always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla’s role in Tokyo, where he’s always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again – wouldn’t Godzilla become God? It would be called ‘Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.’

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

You’re just constantly battling this thing that is telling you, ‘I don’t think I can do it.’ I think we all have it. When you’re fresh and alert, you can easily put those doubts down. But when you’re tired, they easily come up to the surface.

I’ve been battling a sciatic issue for a long time. It comes and goes, goes up and down, but I’ve already worked through it.

Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can’t take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you’re preparing your material for your opponent but when it affects your heart or when you let it get too personal… you got to have fun with it.

To see two couples that are battling to make it work just shows that love is in a marriage, but there are also trials and things that you have to make it through and showing women and men how to keep it spicy.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They’ve lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It’s something that I deal with on a daily basis.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It’s something that I deal with on a daily basis.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody‘s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

A great deal of my energy is directed toward battling the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department.

Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

I don’t like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I’m not battling past 200 other riders.

To see other teams in the playoffs and battling for the Cup, it’s something that gives you a little inspiration.

Kids in Spandex battling rubber monsters? It sounds beautiful. It does.

I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win.

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That’s what Obama‘s not doing.

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that’s where the research shows that kids get interested.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They’ve lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen.

The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama’s economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn’t really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that’s putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.

I think I am a product of my mother’s sensibilities and my mother’s values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it’s never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother’s values.

Just being away from home was the toughest bit. Battling injuries, going to tournaments, and not even playing was tough, but they’re not really big problems.

My biggest fear is that I’m not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I’ve been battling for years that says, ‘You’re not really talented enough. You don’t really deserve this.’

At any given moment, it’s not about where we are supposed to be. It’s about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

It’s really impressive when you’ve got two teams that are really battling it out, low-scoring game, a pitcher‘s duel. To me, that’s so fun to watch.

One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother was battling her ovarian cancer. In a way, it brought our family together and opened up relationships and a closeness that was not felt before her diagnosis.

I am fine battling lions, tigers, snakes, bulls, even hippopotamuses, but not lizards.

I was going to different neighborhoods around Brooklyn battling cats back in – this started in ’82, so that’s like eighth grade. Maybe 13, 14.

Feminism isn’t simply about being a woman in a position of power. It’s battling systemic inequities; it’s a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that’s cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

I’m not out running around all the time. I’m not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I’m with someone, and we are very, very happy.

We were making ‘Tragic Kingdom,’ and we were kind of battling with the record company. It was just being drawn-out, in the same kind of situation where we were all working, we all had jobs, we were going to school.

While this has been a private part of my family‘s life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

I would see b-boys breakdancing in the hallway, I thought it was cool. I started practicing in my living room, then started battling, and then I joined a crew, and we started getting into competitions. In fact, we still battle – for fun now.

I am fine battling lions, tigers, snakes, bulls, even hippopotamuses, but not lizards.

Just being away from home was the toughest bit. Battling injuries, going to tournaments, and not even playing was tough, but they’re not really big problems.

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It’s a sport, competition, so I’m used to it.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don’t even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It’s just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can’t throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.

I learned to surf for ‘Soul Surfer.’ Surfing is like golf: You’re always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It’s magic.

I’m constantly battling writer’s block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

I knew I had an unhealthy child, mainly after about the 20th week, so I knew I was battling against it. I did that privately because I think it’s important that the team don’t deal with that burden – that’s my responsibility.

When you’re that age – that middle-school age, early high school – you’re changing. You’re going crazy. So I put all of my energy into pretending I was someone else, battling and screaming and all that stuff – casting spells and getting into a whole fantasy world. It was really healthy for me.

I do have some guilty pleasures. I’m very keen on mayonnaise, so that’s a shame, as I’m always battling with my weight. But I do love a plate of langoustine or lobster with dollops of mayonnaise.

Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.

It’s not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it’s about paying tribute to them.

Rahul Jaykar, my character in ‘Aashiqui 2,’ was a talented musician battling his demons, while Noor Nizami, my character in ‘Fitoor,’ is an artist who spends his entire life in pursuit of the love of his muse, Firdaus.

When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, ‘Well done.’ That’s Jesus!

What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas.

No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen.

One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother was battling her ovarian cancer. In a way, it brought our family together and opened up relationships and a closeness that was not felt before her diagnosis.

How do you develop? I think that’s about battling for every title. That’s something that is in Arsenal‘s history, and it’s in my history as well. And I want that to continue.

Rahul Jaykar, my character in ‘Aashiqui 2,’ was a talented musician battling his demons, while Noor Nizami, my character in ‘Fitoor,’ is an artist who spends his entire life in pursuit of the love of his muse, Firdaus.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart‘s lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

I’ll keep battling to realize my dreams.

I’ve been through 20 years of torment battling with my sexuality.

I don’t mean to get dark again, but my grandfather has been battling terminal illness. And you know, he never complains. And he has a lot of reasons to complain, but he never complains. And he lost his son a long time ago, when I was a young boy – my uncle. And he never complained.