Best Swimming Upstream Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some people swim as fast as they can. Faster than most. They can never stop and rest for long, and they never reach their destination, for they are constantly swimming upstream. But eventually they become strong, in their own way.”

Sadness Fame Insecurity Swimming Life Struggles Insecure People Life S Journey Swimming Upstream Sad People Workaholics

Author:Robert Black

“Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."”

People Way Feels Looks Actors Like You Swimming Old You Swimming Upstream

Author:Bradley Whitford

“If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.”

Ifs Life Is Christ Rivers Following Swimming Swimming Upstream

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.”

“For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Stills Two Country Black Water Groups Hundred Independence Slavery Slave Swimming Haiti Swimming Upstream

Author:Michele Montas

“Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.”

Way Believe Doe Individual Waiting Rocks Bears Taxes Overcoming Currents Dinner Streams Swimming Mates Predator Mobility Salmon Waterfalls Upward Mobility Swimming Upstream

Author:Dick Morris

“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.”

Writing Fighting Harder Phones Checks Helpful Spells Swimming Unpredictable Completion Entropy Unruly Swimming Upstream Spell Check

Author:Brian Christian

“As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.”

Feels States Products Titles Categories Swimming Ladders Ceilings Neat Swimming Upstream

Author:Judith Hanson Lasater

“I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.”

Ifs Hungry Swimming Salmon Spawn Swimming Upstream

Book:Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

“Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.”

Hard Things To Do Swimming Music Business Hard Things Swimming Upstream Funny Swimming

Author:John Oates

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

Source: The Conduct of Life

“what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.”

Needs Mind Kissing Swimming Swimming Upstream

Book:Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems

Source: Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems

“it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.”

Trying Fall Branches Swimming Cliffs Falling Down Grabbing Swimming Upstream

Book:The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.”

Thinking Motivational Race Focus Athlete Motivational Sports Swim Swimming Preparing Swimmer Motivational Swimming Swimming Upstream

Author:Amanda Beard

“After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.”

Has Beens Real Secret Lifetime Convinced Tendencies Persistence Swimming Phenomenal Swimming Upstream

Author:Sam Walton

“If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Believe Heart Might Fighting Confidence Fishes Streams Believe In Yourself Swim Swimming If You Believe Swimming Upstream

Author:Linda Ellerbee

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

Life Remember Risk Innovation Fishes Swim Swimming Floats Risk It Risk-taking Swimmer Motivational Swimming Swimming Upstream

Author:W. C. Fields