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

— Joseph Conrad

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

— Bryant McGill

Don't let a strong wind blow you over, take flight upon it.

— Rob Liano

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.

— Israelmore Ayivor

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.

— Richie Norton

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

— Carl Sandburg

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

— Stephen Samuel Wise

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky.

— Anthony Liccione