Quotes About Upward Mobility

#1. But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

Shane Claiborne

#2. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

David W. Orr

#3. America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

Arianna Huffington

#4. 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.

Bill Janklow

#5. One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

Danny Meyer

#6. The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

Raj Chetty

#7. If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#8. My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

Sarah Waters

#9. Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

Paul Ryan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Paul Ryan

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

Peter L. Berger

#15. Saying sorry too much is an anchor on your upward mobility.

Aimee Cohen

#16. We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

Jay Parini

#17. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.

Tyler Cowen

#18. The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Paul Ryan

#20. The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.

Robert Reich

#21. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

Ian Schrager

#22. Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

Hillary Clinton

#23. The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#24. The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.

Ron Fournier

#25. In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

Max Lucado

#26. A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Paul Ryan

#27. History, in other words, provides little indication, let alone assurance, that political success is a prerequisite of upward mobility.

Jason L. Riley

#28. Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

Dick Morris

#29. To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#31. We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of them has undergone a close brush with death.

George Saunders

#32. In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

George Eliot

#33. The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

Margaret Halsey

#34. Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Charles Lamb

#35. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Gore Vidal

#36. I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.

Juli Inkster

#37. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.

John Steinbeck

#38. I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

Patti Smith

#39. I'm afraid Eddie the Eagle was before my time. All I know is that his glasses were three times thicker than mine, but I can jump three times further than he did.

Simon Ammann

#40. But what is the theological cost of viewing ministry as management and pastors as professional organizers, albeit in charge of spiritual organizations? What is lost in the switch is the biblical vision of the pastor as a shepherd of a flock of souls. Such

Iain M. Duguid

#41. Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams.

Haruki Murakami

#42. The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#43. The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

Mary Midgley

#44. Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.

Sanford Meisner