Top 100 Quotes About Upward
#1. You touched my flawed life so gently with love
burning upward in dark steady flame
burning me, burning me into healing.
Christy Brown
#2. Mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social order. Of course she was wrong; when I grew up in the South, a Roman Catholic was the weirdest thing you could be.
Pat Conroy
#3. We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#4. The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?
Henry David Thoreau
#5. Let the soul be drawn out and upward, that God may grant us a breath of the heavenly atmosphere. We may keep so near to God that in every unexpected [100] trial our thoughts will turn to Him as naturally as the flower turns to the sun.
Anonymous
#6. He noticed that something was going on. His finger shot upward. "What the hell's that?" he
Douglas Adams
#7. We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
Tyler Cowen
#8. An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of wings, they were flying upward through the pipe. Harry could hear Lockhart dangling bellow him, saying, Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!
J.K. Rowling
#9. She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman
#10. God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
Ovid
#11. Several of the dusty Griever pods were opening, their top halves lifting upward on hinges like the lids of coffins.
James Dashner
#12. So when a colleague stops you in the hallway at work to say hello and ask about your day, the brief interaction actually sparks a continual upward spiral of happiness and its inherent rewards.
Shawn Achor
#13. An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. "You see that?" "Yeah. It's gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, 'Wait a second. This isn't right.' "'I'm supposed to be over there.' "'Took me years to get that hill looking the way I wanted it.
Dennis Lehane
#14. When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.
John Hull
#15. Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.
Thomas Perez
#17. 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
#18. Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.
Shawn Achor
#19. Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy - degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.
Billy Graham
#20. Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#22. Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
Wallace Stegner
#23. Will you oblige me then?' His voice was low and smooth, nearly whispered ...
Everything froze for a moment. Even the flickering lamps seemed to pause, flames surging upward and waiting ...
'No.
Anne Mallory
#24. Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
Beth Kephart
#25. But Mr. Success reacted differently when he got knocked down. He bounced up, learned a lesson, forgot the beating, and moved upward.
David J. Schwartz
#26. Her body was tense, her small teeth sunk into her upper lip. Her eyes flashed upward at Aloysius, and he started at what he saw in them.
Pain. It was normal to feel some pain at the bestowing of a Mark, but what he saw in Adele's eyes- was agony.
Cassandra Clare
#27. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
To what they were before.
William Shakespeare
#28. On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.
Daniel Webster
#29. To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of both our economy and our democracy.
Robert Reich
#30. I think of the snow, falling, drifting upward. Of extending the ephemeral. Spaces follow spaces, burgeoning, and the air smells so sweet.
Meia Geddes
#31. If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.
William James
#33. In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.
Hunter S. Thompson
#34. Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.
Douglas Adams
#35. The third option - alertness, passive alertness - is also an effort but the dimension is different. The energy moves upward. In the beginning it is an effort.
Osho
#36. It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#37. Point the way,' he was talking in metaphorical terms. This pointing-hand gesture - with its index finger and thumb extended upward - is a well-known symbol of the Ancient Mysteries, and it appears
Dan Brown
#38. Better
while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.
Lola Ridge
#39. We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
Alfred North Whitehead
#40. When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
Dada Bhagwan
#41. 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
#43. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
James Montgomery
#45. Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or in plain English a lie.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
#46. Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again.
John Steinbeck
#47. It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy
#48. Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.
Josh Ritter
#50. My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.
Seth Klarman
#51. The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
Howard W. Hunter
#52. Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
Andre Gide
#53. When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#54. A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
Ray Bradbury
#55. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!
Paul Laurence Dunbar
#56. The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Show business is a great place to fail upward ... and I guess that's what I've done.
Kurt Fuller
#58. And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.
Eleanor Catton
#59. Mia looked upward and mouthed a thank you to the universe.
Nicole Meier
#60. Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
Tito Colliander
#61. The holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#62. The human brain comprises about 2 percent of a person's body weight, but it consumes upward of 20 pcent of that body's oxygen intake, and it controls 100 percent of that body's actions.
Elyn R. Saks
#63. My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction.
Tig Notaro
#64. The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
Ben Bernanke
#65. And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast.
George R R Martin
#66. This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
Laurent Fabius
#67. But every human path leads on to God;
He holds a myriad finer threads than gold,
And strong as holy wishes, drawing us
With delicate tension upward to Himself.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#68. When she tipped her head and looked upward at the glowing dark blue dome pricked with its millions of lights, bigger and brighter than stars had ever been, she felt the mountains breathe in her face their ancient, frightening cold.
Wallace Stegner
#69. Here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
Albert Camus
#70. Nor love they least
Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast.
Richard Hovey
#72. Dry fingers of decaying branches protruded upward, above what was left of the canopy of green. They rattled like skeletal bones, grasping for a final breath from the last silvery clouds of evening that slowly drifted by.
K. Farrell St. Germain
#73. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
Drew Houston
#74. Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.
Kamaran Ihsan Salih
#75. I glanced upward once, to see Brianna glowing, still smiling from ear to ear. Jamie was behind her, also smiling, his cheeks wet with tears. He said something to her in husky Gaelic, and brushing the hair away from her neck, leaned forward and kissed her gently, just behind the ear
Diana Gabaldon
#76. We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?
Philip K. Dick
#77. The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.
Frederick Lenz
#78. There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
Henry Van Dyke
#79. I think the mysterious pull that draws you to another person is identical to the one that moves our eyes upward to the stars.
Lang Leav
#80. Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,
that who seeks grace without recourse to you
would have his wish fly upward without wings.
Dante Alighieri
#81. She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain.
James Baldwin
#82. 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
#83. But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
Cheryl Strayed
#84. 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
#85. Fear and doubt bloated in his lower extremities and the gas from the created cloud steamed upward and into the recesses of his soul.
Gayne C Young
#86. Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
William Shakespeare
#87. I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.
Elin Stebbins Waldal
#88. The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
Judith Guest
#89. Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#91. We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.
Raphael Zernoff
#92. 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
#93. The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
Sri Aurobindo
#94. Like water, many decent individuals will seek lower ground if left to their own inclinations. In most cases you are the one who inspires and demands they go upward rather than settle for the comfort of doing what comes easily.
Bill Walsh
#95. We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
Paul Ryan
#96. It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
#97. Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
Oliver Sacks
#98. -The provisions you need to fulfill you ministry or mission is locked up in the open doors of utterance, faith and call
-During your waiting time look inward to yourself, upward to God, then outward to ur environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#99. When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward ... I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.
Johnny Hunt
#100. Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
