Upward Quotes

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

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.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The upward interest rate trend will continue because the real interest rate is still negative.