Quotes About Upward

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Momentum is an amazing thing when it is working in your favour.

The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I'm falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.

Love is reverence, worship, glory, and the upward glance. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love–the total passion for the total height–you're incapable of anything less..

Stage 3 top as the upward advance loses momentu m and starts to trend sideways.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

Most of the time, yesterday's level of increase will not be enough to secure tomorrow"s increase

There is also an important distinction to be made between "upward" and "downward" counterfactuals. Upward counterfactuals are imagined states that are better than what actually happened, and downward counterfactuals are imagined states that are worse.

The being/seeing change is an upward process—being changing seeing, which in turn changes being, and so forth, as we move in an upward spiral of growth. By working on knowledge, skill, and desire, we can break through to new levels of personal and interpersonal effectiveness as we break with old paradigms that may have been a source of pseudo-security for years.

Renewal is the principle—and the process—that empowers us to move on an upward spiral of growth and change, of continuous improvement.

we need to consider one other aspect of renewal as it applies to the unique human endowment that directs this upward movement—our conscience. In the words of Madame de Staël, "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it: but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Inequality is seen as a harbinger of opportunity, a sign that education and other routes to upward mobility might pay off for them and their children.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not.

partir de ese punto, desarrollé mis principales conclusiones morales. Apunta hacia arriba. Presta atención. Arregla lo que puedas arreglar. No seas arrogante. Esfuérzate por ser humilde, porque el orgullo totalitario se manifiesta en la intolerancia, la opresión, la tortura y la muerte.

Maybe your misery is the weapon you brandish in your hatred for those who rose upward while you waited and sank. Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world's injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your own missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and to live. Maybe your willingness to suffer in failure is inexhaustible, given what you use that suffering to prove. Maybe it's your revenge on Being.

The delinquency spreads, not the stability.65 Down is a lot easier than up.

She embodied his need to soar upward from the terrestrial humdrum.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You'll always travel in the direction of your thinking.