Upward Quotes

271 Upward quotes by 229 unique authors

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 I’m jumping, it’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
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things… — Plato
The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable),… — Unknown Author
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection… — Swami Vivekananda
I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way… — Barbara Ehrenreich
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place',… — William Safire
If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of… — Warren Buffett
Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Vision looks upward and becomes faith. — Stephen Samuel Wise

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