Upward Trajectory Quotes

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

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Not too many guys can say their career was always on the up. You just endure it and continue to work hard, continue to try to be a better player.

It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go.

As the youngest child of a single immigrant mother with a third-grade education, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd ever be an elected official.

I'm a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.

Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there's a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I'd've turned on to that.

"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".

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

I don't come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don't always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

I think people always expect that when you have a good season and expect the next season to be better, and the season after better and better.

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.