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Quotes About Onward

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.
~ Warren G. Harding
The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
~ Roman Payne, The Wanderess
The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march
~ Bhagat Singh
We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?
~ John L. O'Sullivan
I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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
Rand sent us away to search for an enemy," he bellowed. "We return to him having found allies. Onward, to the Last Battle!" Only
~ Robert Jordan
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
His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
~ Anais Nin
The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
~ Roman Payne
When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.
~ Lytton Strachey
His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
~ Anais Nin
Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.
~ William Batchelder Greene
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
~ Patrick MacGill
The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.
~ barth john ii
Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding onward Listen to that rag Hop and skip now do that slow, oh Do that slow drag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you hear that pretty rag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you do the real slow drag Waltz slowly, waltz slowly Listen to the ragtime Hop and skip Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag
~ Scott Joplin
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
~ Edward Carpenter
Rise and be prepared to move on and ever on.
~ Maya Angelou
But now, now he needed to let himself rest when it came time to rest, and to move on when it came time to move on, and to do so in the direction of the moving on.
~ Joshua Ferris
All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward.
~ Sylvia Plath
He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.
~ Milan Kundera
Love = Living Onwardly Victoriously Eternally
~ John M. Sheehan
You'll know for yourself what to fight. Grandma told me fighting can be making peace. She said sometimes we move forward by looking back and sometimes the onward can be knowing when to stop.
~ Miriam Toews
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
~ Pierre-Jean de Beranger