Upward Quotes

271 quotes by 241 authors

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
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. — Hunter S. Thompson
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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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