The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Abdul Kalam
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down. — Bulgarian 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
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. — Napoleon Hill
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down. — American Proverbs
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself. — Icelandic Proverbs
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. — Samuel Johnson
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar
The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile. — Matthew Henson
The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs. — Jenifer Lewis
Life's a climb. But the view is great. — Miley Cyrus
But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence — Hans Christian Andersen
Climbing Up The Ladder Image Quotes
Don't climb mountains so that people can see you. Climb mountains that you can see the world.
Climbing The Ladder Quotes
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
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
When you reach the top, keep climbing.
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
You keep putting one foot in front of the other and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.
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
Going Up The Ladder Quotes
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 more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. — Jerry Hall
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe.
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
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
... 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
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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
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 climb is tough, but the view from the top is worth it.
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 best view comes after the hardest climb.
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 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
Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside. — Rohit Sharma
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. — Mae West
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
Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion. — Tony Robbins
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
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. — Stephen Covey
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
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
Climbing Up Quotes
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. — Ramakrishna
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God. — Martin Luther
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living. — Malcolm X
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor — Malorie Blackman
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude. — John Cassian
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen. — M. C. Escher
Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply. — Graham Chapman
If Mephistopheles climbed up the pulpit and read the Gospel, could anyone be inspired by this prayer? — Stephen Kotkin
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
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
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
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
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
Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs. — Yiddish Proverbs
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
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
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
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 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
The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners. — Judith M Bardwick
Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test. — David Rudisha
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. — Mitch Daniels
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him. — John Burroughs
Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s. — Cleve Jones
What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there. — Marianne Williamson
When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living. — Marianne Williamson
I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder. — Elena Ferrante
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up. — Woody Allen
The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof. — E. T. A. Hoffmann
Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height. — Sun Tzu
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible. — Ludwig Buchner
Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?! — CM Punk
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. — Peter Kreeft
I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful." — Jose Mujica
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him. — Sun Tzu
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up. — Don Winslow
Okay, I guess you can come in." "Um, Hannah, you have to, you know, open the front door so I can actually come in." "I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home. Also, you call throwing rocks at your window clichéd? — Elizabeth Scott
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him. — Abraham Verghese
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