Quotes & Sayings About Excelsior

See you on the other side. Excelsior. — Maggie Stiefvater

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail. — P.T. Barnum

Back in August 1960 an American pilot called Joe Kittinger climbed into the open gondola beneath a balloon called Excelsior III and floated up to 102,800 feet. At this point, 20 miles above the Earth in what is technically space, he jumped. Moments later he became the first man to go through the sound barrier without the benefit of a plane. It was, and still is, the highest parachute jump ever, and it proved you can 'abandon ship' even when you're in space. — Jeremy Clarkson

Say it,' Ronan told Gansey.
'Say what?'
'Excelsior.'
'That's onward and upward,' Gansey said. 'It means to ascend. That's opposite.'
'Oh well,' Ronan said. 'Squash one, squash two, squash three on and on and on-'
Then he disappeared into the hole, his voice still carrying up.
Adam said, 'I'm not singing along!' but he followed Ronan in. — Maggie Stiefvater

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step. — Daniel D. Palmer

Excelsior," Gansey said bleakly.
Blue asked, "What does that even mean?"
Gansey looked over his shoulder at her. He was once more, just a little bit closer to the boy she'd seen in the churchyard.
"Onward and upward. — Maggie Stiefvater

Excelsior! You will never again pray, never again repose in limitless trust - you deny it to yourself to remain halted before an ultimate wisdom, ultimate good, ultimate power, and there unharness your thoughts — Friedrich Nietzsche