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Quotes About Upward

When it comes right down to it, the only way to face a crises that makes any sense at all - is together. And the only direction to face- is up.
~ Phil Callaway
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
~ Philip Sydney
He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Even if your organization doesn't currently embrace critical upward feedback, holding an open season on leaders might be an effective way to begin changing the culture.
~ Adam Grant
I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.
~ Fred Durst
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
~ Hart Crane
Downsiders," said the clown, "never look up.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
Although we've lately come to associate gravity with heaviness, and so to think of it as having a strictly downward vector, nonetheless something rises up into us from the solid earth whenever we're in contact with it.
~ David Abram
Information Age will be the age of upward mobility. It will afford far more equal opportunity for the billions of humans in parts of the world that never shared fully in the prosperity of industrial society. The brightest, most successful and ambitious of these will emerge as truly Sovereign Individuals.
~ James Dale Davidson
Hij zwaaide de hamer omhoog en - 'MEESTER JAKE!' - geschrokken gaf hij zijn duim een harde klap, precies op de knokkel
~ James Rollins
Plants are the young of the world. Vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect man, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good made human beings poor and needy; He even inscribed humility in the human flesh when he created male and female, that is, incomplete creatures. He made them, from the very beginning, two beings, moving in search of one another, each one "unsatisfied" with only himself or herself. God has positioned human beings on a plane that inclines upward, not downward, so that union between man and woman should move them beyond the other sex upward to the supreme Other, God Himself.
~ Raniero Cantalamessa
I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.
~ Soledad O'Brien
You've fallen into the habit of feeling low. You can get used to anything, especially bad things. But the only direction now is up. You can't fall off the floor.
~ Karin Slaughter
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
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
~ Ovid
The soul of man was made to walk the skies.
~ Edward Young
Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
~ Ovid
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
~ Jesse Owens
Always compete upwards, as otherwise you'll find yourself reduced as a human.
~ Sandeep Sahajpal