Top 475 Upward Quotes & Sayings

Atlanta has a lot going on and part of that is upward mobility of the people who live there.

I just think that humans were created to look upward

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

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 Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

Upward, not Northward

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

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 choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.