Upwards Quotes
83 quotes by 76 authors
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Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
— Ruth Westheimer
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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of…
— Plato
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Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.
— George Lois
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The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent…
— Matt Redman
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies…
— Chauncey Wright
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In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go…
— Virchand Gandhi
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Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has…
— Seneca the Younger
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We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make…
— Winston Churchill
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Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
— Unknown Author
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Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
— Joseph Goebbels
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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
— Sakya Pandita
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The best moments on earth are those during which we meditate upon heavenly things in general, when we recognize or defend the truth, that heavenly…
— John of Kronstadt
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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the…
— Jo Nesbo
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Looking behind, I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward, I am filled with vision. Looking upwards, I am filled with strength. Looking within, I discover…
— Robert Muller
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It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to…
— Alfred Polgar
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Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came…
— John Deacon
Who Wrote These Upwards Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 83 Upwards Quotes, led by these top contributors: