Ascent Quotes

Ascent Quote of the day

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

I plot my ascent daily.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

Everything that rises must converge.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

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

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.

In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.

If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. Best way to practice witness state is not to criticize anyone.

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!