Depending on the meaning you give to this phrase: 1) http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/onwards+and+upwards 2) http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Onwards+and+upwards! 1) * I may be wrong, but I don't think there's fixed/idiomatic expression for this, you have to phrase it differently based on the context. * Very few italians would even use the latin phrase "ad maiora", just isolated as an encouragement. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_maiora 2) "forza e coraggio".

Thanks. My meaning was more the second one, the exclamatory exaggerated phrase "Onwards and Upwards !". Although the two references in freedictionary are more or less the same, just one is a more restrained everyday usage. Heavens, are you the drrdn that Benny Lewis chatted to on his video today ? Must be. Weird !