People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. — Thomas Merton
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar
Don't climb mountains so that people can see you. Climb mountains that you can see the world.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. — River Phoenix
When you reach the top, keep climbing.
It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective. — Stephen Covey
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket -
The road to success is always under construction — Lily Tomlin
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. — Mae West
Climbing The Ladder Of Life Quotes
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. — Donny Osmond
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. — Ray Bradbury
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective. — Stephen Covey
You keep putting one foot in front of the other and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down. — John Ortberg
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend. — John Shirley
Ladder Inspirational Quotes
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed. — Li Ka-shing
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe.
Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion. — Tony Robbins
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly. — Nelson Mandela
What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action? — Tony Robbins
Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution. — Tony Robbins
I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not. — Trent Reznor
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life. — Miranda Kerr
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek
The climb is tough, but the view from the top is worth it.
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.' — Chris Hayes
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down. — John Ortberg
I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror. — Forest Whitaker
The best view comes after the hardest climb.
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. — Kate Jacobs
When you got a dream,
you don't just climb half way up the ladder,
you climb all the way to the top — Cher Lloyd
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard. — Mariel Hemingway
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. — Michael Bassey
Going Up The Ladder Quotes
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down. — American Proverbs
The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. — Jerry Hall
As you go higher up in the ladder, you look down, and it's a pretty far fall, so you tend to watch your step a bit more. That's all you can do. It's a full time job not to kill these niggas out here; every day I ask for the strength not to go off the handle and whack one of these stupid cunts. — Gunplay
... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that sense of security.. is the challenge. ... think of yourself as climbing a ladder. To move to the next rung, you must give up your grip and reach for the next one. — Nick Vujicic
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. — Robert Louis Stevenson
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'. — Margaret Thatcher
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. — Joely Richardson
Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it. — Karl Urban
One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in their literary lives, getting prizes and awards and the better teaching gigs, women tend to sort of drop away. — Erin Belieu
When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about. — Colin Powell
Ladder Of Success Quotes
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success. — Paulo Coelho
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. — Hedy Lamarr
I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up! — Donald Trump
The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths. — Robin Sharma
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. — Napoleon Hill
Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside. — Rohit Sharma
If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success. — Evan Esar
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. — Stephen Covey
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself. — Icelandic Proverbs
Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs. — Joan Jett
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. — W. Clement Stone
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. — Ha-Joon Chang
I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building. — Madeleine Albright
Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success! — Joyce Meyer
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder. — Christina Stead
If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness. — T. Harv Eker
Ladder Quotes
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Rumi
You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world — Mick Foley
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Norman Cook
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route. — John Glenn
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. — Herbert Hoover
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. — Dan Millman
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. — Rachel Maddow
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. — Thomas Merton
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world — Mick Foley
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. — Herbert Hoover
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. — Donny Osmond
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. — River Phoenix
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life. — Miranda Kerr
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. — Carl Jung
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. — Harry Anderson
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. — Ray Bradbury
And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young. — Sayings
It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective. — Stephen Covey
When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids. — Sugar Ray Leonard
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket -
The road to success is always under construction — Lily Tomlin
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. — Stephen Covey
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. — Mae West
If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success. — Evan Esar
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. — Bob Dylan
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.' — Chris Hayes
I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building. — Madeleine Albright
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down. — John Ortberg
I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror. — Forest Whitaker
When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery. — Niger Innis
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. — George R. R. Martin
Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who was a climber. He was forever hoping, climbing that ladder, trying to get to the head spot. — Rush Limbaugh
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. — Kate Jacobs
One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. — Paul Twitchell
When you got a dream,
you don't just climb half way up the ladder,
you climb all the way to the top — Cher Lloyd
May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young. — Bob Dylan
And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House." — George H. W. Bush
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder. — Richard Benyo
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective. — Stephen Covey
I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one. — Crowder
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. — William Faulkner
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down. — John Ortberg
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard. — Mariel Hemingway
All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered. — Michael Ende
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