The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand
Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down. — Bulgarian Proverbs
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down. — American 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
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself. — Icelandic Proverbs
All rising to great places is by a winding stair. — Buddha
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. — Napoleon Hill
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
Climbing Up The Ladder 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
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
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
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 knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
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
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
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
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
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
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
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
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
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 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
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
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
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
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
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
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
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
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. — Stephen Covey
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
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
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
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
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
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
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
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
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
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
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
I grew up in the South Side, and when we would have snow and blizzards and drifts, we would jump off the garage roof into the snow. Now if I'm up on a step ladder and I think I'm going to fall, it's a foot and a half off the ground, but I'm panicked about it. So I'm afraid of ladders and those beds. — Jimmy Pardo
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
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
I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition. — Tim Kang
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game. — Edward Brooke
If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder! — Maria Montessori
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart
When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
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