Onward Quotes

167 Onward quotes by 141 unique authors

Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that… — Daniel Woodrell
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes. — Victoria Woodhull
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a… — Alexander Smith
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall… — Blaise Pascal
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. — Vance Havner
Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go. — Henry Kirke White
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting… — Edwin Arnold
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail… — Heinrich Heine
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless… — Sam Walter Foss
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth… — Margaret Sanger
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as… — Margaret Fuller
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! — Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long… — John Muir
Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit… — David
We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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