Definition of Onward

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Onward

Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

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Onward Quotations

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
Dan Quayle

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz Kafka

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
John L. Lewis

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
Robert Wyatt

Onward Translations

onward in French is avanten

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