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Quotes About Upward

even the staunchly conservative National Review published an essay that concluded, "What is clear is that in at least one regard American mobility is exceptional . . . where we stand out is in our limited upward mobility from the bottom.
~ Fareed Zakaria
The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.
~ Robert Rankin
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
~ Robert Southey
When you spend your whole life living in a hole," he said, "the only way you can go is up.
~ Louis Sachar
When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up.
~ Louis Sachar
To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on
~ Louisa May Alcott
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
~ Salman Rushdie
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
There were so many stars in the dusky night I could see them falling as I gazed upward into the darkness. They seemed so near, like the Salt Sea in the distance, when they were so far away.
~ Alice Hoffman
All things transitory But as symbols are sent. Earth's insufficiency Here grows to event. The indescribable Here it is done. The Woman-Soul leads us upward and on!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
~ Mitch Daniels
Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
~ Louis Sachar
Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back, and lend a hand.
~ Edward Everett Hale
It's the only way to fly.
~ Anonymous
We should all use suspenders to keep our souls from slipping down to our heels.
~ António Lobo Antunes
That was what had changed, he thought. To love posterity and the great institutions you had to believe in the wisdom of men. You had to love them as a child might, gazing upward.
~ Lydia Millet
Ride higher in life unto the higher life.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Let us look upward and look inward, in the faith of the Son and the Spirit, and God will show us that every word written in the Book of the Covenant is not only true, but that it can be made spirit and truth within us, and in our daily life. This can indeed be.
~ Andrew Murray
Do you believe in transcendence downward as well as upward?
~ Saul Bellow
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
~ Aldous Huxley
Wasn't hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn't hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
~ Eknath Easwaran
the park had climbed up to
~ Elena Ferrante
ceiling is very pog
~ Arry Barry