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Quotes About Upward

The hills climbed sunward to the sun. 
~ Thomas Wolfe
The consequences are clear. There has been a collapse in intergenerational mobility:
~ Tony Judt
come on up." "Up?
~ Kristen Heitzmann
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
~ George Orwell
To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
~ Edward Everett Hale
His spirits, sharpened by disliking the bishop as an appetite is sharpened by pickles, took an upward turn.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up.
~ Tami Hoag
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
~ Paul Ryan
No existe ninguna ley que prohíba volar, ¿verdad?. -Claro que sí. La ley de la gravedad.
~ Laini Taylor
Since today Basxaxd SBI securities web trading platform is not allowing its client traders to buy shares or see their transaction positions, it is most likely that share prices will go up further in the last 1 hour of its trading session
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trust That He, who lays this mortal frame in dust, Still hath the immortal Spirit in His keeping In Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping.
~ lamb charles iii
If I might make a suggestion," said Will. "About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—
~ Cassandra Clare
Happy children! thus to flee Early to their home above! Happy those below, to be Upward drawn by chords of love!
~ Anonymous, 1800s
On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.
~ James Allen
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
~ Queen Elizabeth II
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.
~ Bhartrhari
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
~ Samuel Smiles
All are on the Path, whose end is THE ALL. All progress is a Returning Home. All is Upward and Onward, in spite of all seemingly contradictory appearances. Such is the message of the Illumined.
~ The Three Initiates
It is despair that nothing cannot be Flares in the mind and leaves a smoky mark Of dread. Look upward. Neither firm nor free, Purposeless matter hovers in the dark.
~ Thom Gunn
Faith is the soul looking upward to God, hope is looking forward to the future, and love is looking outward to others.
~ Norman L. Geisler
they reached as far upmarket as they could in each new product generation, until their drives packed the capacity to appeal to the value networks above them. It is this upward mobility that makes disruptive technologies so dangerous to established firms—and so attractive to entrants.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
After all, when we pause to think about it a moment, we must realize that even our modern mountain highways follow the valleys to reach the summit of the passes they traverse. Similarly the ways of God lead upward through the valleys of our lives.
~ W. Phillip Keller
As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
~ Charles Dickens