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onward

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1. onward - Adjective

2. onward - Verb

3. onward - Adverb

Meaning

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. Dmitri Shostakovich

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

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

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward. Ben Carson

It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago.They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped. John Humphrys

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. John Muir

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