Top 173 Upwards Quotes & Sayings

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

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.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.

We saw how a lot of companies charge upwards of $1500 for a basic LSAT course, and we all thought that is simply way too much, even if the instruction was good.

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

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 started.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

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 the ground?

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.