Upward Quotes

271 Upward quotes by 229 unique authors

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one… — James A. Michener
If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get… — David Frum
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater… — Aristotle
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. — Thomas Sowell
I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the… — Richard G. Scott
The single most empowering thing we can do for ourselves is to transform fear. While fear contains tremendous power, it doesn't propel us forward and… — Sue Thoele
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore de Balzac
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as… — Margaret Fuller
Envy, like fire, soars upward. — Unknown Author
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ...… — Norman Vincent Peale
Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit… — David
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results… — Stephen Covey
In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally… — William Eckhardt
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought,… — Robert Williams Buchanan
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. — Bill Vaughan
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. — Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. — Andre Gide
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate.… — Francis Ford Coppola

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