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Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
— Oliver Sacks
But Mr. Success reacted differently when he got knocked down. He bounced up, learned a lesson, forgot the beating, and moved upward.
— David J. Schwartz
Nor love they least Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast. — Richard Hovey
The wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died as well.
— Martin George
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
— Alfred North Whitehead
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
I could almost feel hope latching onto my heart and pulling it upward.
— Suzanne Supplee
Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
— Joseph Conrad
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
— James Russell Lowell
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
— C.S. Lewis
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.
— Harold S. Kushner
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
— R.A. Torrey
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
— Thomas Sowell
And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast.
— George R R Martin
When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
— Dada Bhagwan
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before. — William Shakespeare
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
— Tito Colliander
The recollection of one upward hourHath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure. — James Gates Percival
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.
— Swami Prabhavananda
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.
— Peter L. Berger
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 path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
— Howard W. Hunter
Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
— Albert Murray
America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.
— Arianna Huffington
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
— Honore De Balzac
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
— Ambrose Bierce
ammunition boxes. They were both packed tight with cartridges standing on their firing pins, points upward.
— Lee Child
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
— David Lilienthal
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
— Alfred Edersheim
Time makes ancient good uncouth.
— James Russell Lowell
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
— Judith Guest
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach ... just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.
— Stephen Colbert
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
— Sarah Waters
Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.
— David Mitchell
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.
— Raphael Zernoff
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
— New International Version
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.
— Vijay Singh
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
— Anonymous Holy Bible Job 5 7
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.
— Wilferd Peterson
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
— Charlotte Bronte
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
— Salman Rushdie
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
— Carl Jung
Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.
— Daniil Kharms
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
— Samuel Smiles
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.
— Roger Wolcott Sperry
Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.
— Douglas Adams
The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities
— Henry B. Eyring
Here's to opening and upward ... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing. — E. E. Cummings
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
— Zoroaster
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimeycity goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
— Wassily Kandinsky
She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain.
— James Baldwin
Onward and upward.
— Maggie Stiefvater
If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.
— Maxine Powell
The road to Heaven is ascension; always climb upward.
— Duane Hewitt
And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.
— Eleanor Catton
His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.
— Elizabeth Morgan
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.
— Richard St. Barbe Baker
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
— Sri Aurobindo
But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
— Cheryl Strayed
Several of the dusty Griever pods were opening, their top halves lifting upward on hinges like the lids of coffins.
— James Dashner
Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,that who seeks grace without recourse to you
would have his wish fly upward without wings. — Dante Alighieri
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!
— Edgar Lee Masters
