Upward Quotes

271 Upward quotes by 229 unique authors

Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is… — Thomas a Kempis
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a… — Laurent Fabius
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates… — Daniel Greenberg
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries… — Bertrand Russell
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not… — George Saunders
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell… — Swami Vivekananda
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts,… — Hayden Carruth
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness. — Howard W. Hunter
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period… — Mark Twain
The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom,… — Henri Nouwen
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. — Alfred Edersheim
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains… — Theodore Roethke
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes. — Victoria Woodhull
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… — James Russell Lowell
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily… — Mahatma Gandhi
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. — Unknown Author
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only… — Jerome K. Jerome
The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests… — Edwin Markham
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually. — Frederick Lenz
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on… — A. C. Benson

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