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My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. -- Sarah Waters
Upward, not Northward -- Edwin A. Abbott
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North! -- C. S. Lewis
Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward. -- Thomas S. Monson
I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually. -- Viola Davis
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people. -- Richard Rohr
Vision looks upward and becomes faith. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -- Charlotte Bronte
We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward. -- Dan Quayle
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. -- Carl Sandburg
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -- Joseph Conrad
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. -- George Will
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. -- Drew Houston
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. -- Paul Ryan
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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 heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! -- Francis Ford Coppola
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state. -- Vladimir Putin
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. -- Paul Ryan
Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. -- Orison Swett Marden
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. -- Edmund Hillary
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. -- Frances E. Willard
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God. -- Annie Besant
Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward. -- David A. Bednar
I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job. -- Dawn Olivieri
You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory. -- Alan Arkin
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians. -- Shereen El Feki
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. -- Zoroaster
Envy, like fire, soars upward. -- Livy
The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any upward movement is movement for us all. -- Octavia Spencer
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God. -- John Bunyan
Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above. -- Franz Grillparzer
A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up. -- Patrick Rothfuss
In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility. -- Max Lucado
I just think that humans were created to look upward -- Catherine Hicks
Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology. -- Russell Kirk
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. -- Henry Van Dyke
Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. -- Swami Prabhavananda
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. -- Philip Yancey
It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward. -- Jack Nicholson
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. -- Andre Gide
A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace. -- Ray Bradbury
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. -- Andre Gide
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. -- G. Stanley Hall
Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before. -- William Shakespeare
We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures... -- David Rutley
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. -- Carl Sandburg
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. -- Roger Wolcott Sperry
I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new. -- Isaac Marion
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. -- Thomas Sowell
We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities -- Henry B. Eyring
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility. -- Peter L. Berger
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize -- Elizabeth Harrison
Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done. -- Kurt Fuller
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? -- Dante Alighieri
The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people. -- Hunter S. Thompson
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering -- Alfred North Whitehead
Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace. -- Donald Barnhouse
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. -- Ovid
Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone - including yourself - upward. -- Doreen Virtue
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. -- Alfred North Whitehead
When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt. -- Johnny Hunt
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. -- Wassily Kandinsky
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. -- Ambrose Bierce
To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility. -- Donald Trump
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness. -- Howard W. Hunter
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. -- Dick Morris
If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile. -- Maxine Powell
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. -- Alfred Edersheim
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. -- Albert Murray
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. -- Oliver Sacks
There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods. -- Robert Bly
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun! -- Edgar Lee Masters
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage. -- Stephen Colbert
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take. -- Raphael Zernoff
Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing. -- e. e. cummings
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. -- Rumi
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. -- Salman Rushdie
Bottom line: the â??no upward trend' has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried. -- Phil Jones
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again. -- Harold S. Kushner
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights. -- Wilferd Peterson
My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward. -- Vijay Singh
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. -- Sri Aurobindo
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. -- Judith Guest
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. -- Honore de Balzac
Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast. -- Richard Hovey
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below. -- Voltaire
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible. -- Tito Colliander
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. -- Eknath Easwaran
America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex. -- Arianna Huffington
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
Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now ... I am. -- Aaron Carter
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
The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter. -- Raj Chetty
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
...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
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure. -- James Gates Percival
Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures. -- Hugh S. Johnson
A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens. -- Paul Ryan
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
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 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
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. -- Neil Gaiman
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
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement. -- John Mackey

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