Upward Quotes

271 quotes by 229 authors

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live… — Yukio Mishima
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and… — Swami Vivekananda
The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the… — James E. Faust
The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual understanding and energy… — Keith K. Hilbig
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell?… — Robert Frost
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that… — Barack Obama
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,… — Charles Dickens
Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing… — Albert Einstein
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women — Queen Elizabeth II
But when Iâ€™m jumping, itâ€™s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky… — Naoki Higashida
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are… — Howard Zinn
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny,… — Greer Garson
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to… — Terry Tempest Williams
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we… — J M Coetzee
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. — Henry Ward Beecher
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of… — Luther Standing Bear

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