Upward Quotes
271 quotes by 241 authors
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the…
— Annie Besant
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way;…
— Mary Susanne Edgar
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously…
— Charles Brent
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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before…
— Hermann Buhl
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they…
— Aristotle
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular…
— Bertrand Russell
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Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is…
— Rajneesh
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has…
— Robert Southey
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one…
— Stephen Covey
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Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which…
— Richard Maurice Bucke
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Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of…
— Brad Steiger
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