Definition of Toward

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Toward

Alt. of Towards

Approaching; coming near.

Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.

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Toward Quotations

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Tony Robbins

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Kahlil Gibran

Toward Translations

toward in Afrikaans is na ... toe, aan, na, vir, toe
toward in Danish is til
toward in Dutch is tegen, tot, naar, aan, bij, voor
toward in Italian is arrendevole
toward in Latin is erga, adversus (prep. + acc.), in, obviam
toward in Portuguese is a, para
toward in Spanish is a, pacato

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