Upward Quotes

“Vision looks upward and becomes faith.”

“If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation).”

“Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.”

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

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

“Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards”

“When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!”

“Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.”

“In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up," he said. "When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.”