Upward Quotes

271 Upward quotes by 229 unique authors

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life. — Samuel Smiles
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice… — Charles Spurgeon
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for… — J C Ryle
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… — Gaston Bachelard
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them.… — Benjamin Carson
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will… — Mary Church Terrell
It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty… — Frederick Buechner
Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried. — Phil Jones
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It… — Henri Nouwen
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to… — Freeman Dyson
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if… — Robertson Davies
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be… — Frances E. Willard
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind… — Margaret Halsey
On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of… — Tahereh Mafi
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the… — Albert Mackey
Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist… — Max Nordau
Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve… — Swami Vivekananda
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful… — Hart Crane
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the… — Alfred Loisy
The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various… — William Davenant
My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by… — Unknown Author
We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures... — Unknown Author
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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