Upward Quotes

271 Upward quotes by 229 unique authors

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace. — Ray Bradbury
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of… — Wendell Berry
Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. — Henry Van Dyke
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. — Alfred North Whitehead
Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward. — Thomas S. Monson
A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism… — Thomas Huxley
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks
The Lord is anxious to lead us to the safety of higher ground, away from the path of physical and spiritual danger. His upward path… — Henry B. Eyring
Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and… — David A. Bednar
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and… — Vladimir Putin
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray
To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of both… — Robert Reich
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the… — Spalding Gray
The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as… — Gautam Adani
Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their… — Conrad Hilton
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. — Sarah Waters
The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you… — Kenneth Fisher
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement. — John Mackey
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. — Carl Sandburg
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Henry Ward Beecher
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. — Tom Wolfe
2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a… — Baldwin Spencer
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward… — Charles E. Wilson
Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level… — John Hull

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