Upward Onward Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

Veronica Roth

#3. Time makes ancient good uncouth.

James Russell Lowell

#4. 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

#5. I've never gone to comedy clubs.

Don Rickles

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I've got no bone to pick with science, but first off I'm a man of faith. If you're using science to put limits on what God can accomplish with a person, that's where we part ways.

Regina Jennings

#11. During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

Betty White

#12. I'm a lot of work.

Lisa Marie Presley

#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. We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

Josh Fox

#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. 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

#23. However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Greg Egan

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Dan Quayle

#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. There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

Ziggy Marley

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Onward and upward.

Maggie Stiefvater

#35. People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

Edwidge Danticat

#36. 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

#37. Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

Roger Zelazny

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

Julie Winkle Giulioni

#39. A threat leads to nothing if it is not accepted. In fighting the good fight, you should never forget that. Just as you should never forget that both attacking and fleeing are part of the fight. What isn't a part of the fight is becoming paralyzed by fear.

Paulo Coelho

#40. End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.

Clint Walker

#41. 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

#42. Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life ... The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love ... Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

Pope Francis