Onward Upward Quotes

#1. A sacred burden is this life ye bear,
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly;
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Fanny Kemble

#2. You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

Zig Ziglar

#3. Time makes ancient good uncouth.

James Russell Lowell

#4. The whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

Paul Copan

#6. The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

G. Campbell Morgan

#7. Just as one moment can bring despair, it can also lead to a new beginning. A different life. A dream for moving onward and upward rather than backward.

Diane Guerrero

#8. It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

John Magaro

#9. 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

#10. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.

Michael Monroe

#11. Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#12. They will pass the winter in this desultory fashion. The

Kathleen Collins

#13. 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 it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

Margaret Fuller

#14. Upward and Onward

Stephen Zimmer

#15. On the bleakst days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give theam a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again. (p. 193)

Tahereh Mafi

#16. Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.

Tavi Gevinson

#17. When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.'
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go.

Stephen King

#18. Excelsior," Gansey said bleakly.
Blue asked, "What does that even mean?"
Gansey looked over his shoulder at her. He was once more, just a little bit closer to the boy she'd seen in the churchyard.
"Onward and upward.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. 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

#20. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward

Philippa Gregory

#21. Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

#22. Seriously, what would you prefer? To stand out from everyone else, or disappear in the crowd? Because I call the latter 'sheep.

G.P. Burdon

#23. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Alice Walker

#24. Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

C.S. Lewis

#25. Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection.

Greg Egan

#26. All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Brigham Young

#27. 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

#28. We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Dan Quayle

#29. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.

John Ross Macduff

#30. People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.

Milan Kundera

#31. It bugged me that the cover bedding was seldom washed, like slapping on a set of sheets made up for a bedspread that contained more germs per inch than the inside of a frat boy's toilet.

Cheryl Bradshaw

#32. If you're 5-minutes early, you're late How to always be on time

Phillip Gary Smith

#33. Music is like my security blanket.

Yoko Ono

#34. Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

Forest Whitaker

#35. If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

Aldous Huxley

#36. Onward and upward.

Maggie Stiefvater

#37. Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

Audrey Meadows

#38. It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them.

Samuel Beckett

#39. Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Samuel Smiles

#40. Onward and upward has been replaced by forward and toward.

Julie Winkle Giulioni

#41. Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

Perry Stone

#42. Thick is the darkness
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.

William Ernest Henley

#43. I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

Spalding Gray