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
Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs. — Yiddish Proverbs
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
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 ladder of success is never crowded at the top. — Napoleon Hill
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
You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. — Joe Girard
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs. — Jenifer Lewis
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world — Mick Foley
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success. — Paulo Coelho
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. — Rumi
I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up! — Donald Trump
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. — Harry Anderson
Ladder Image Quotes
The way up the ladder is open to everybody.
Success 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 don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards
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
The way up the ladder is open to everybody.
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
The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths. — Robin Sharma
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
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 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
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
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
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
Ladder Of Success Quotes
Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion. — Tony Robbins
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
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
What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action? — Tony Robbins
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
It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true. — Wayne Dyer
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 Up The Ladder Quotes
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
Corporate Ladder Quotes
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career. — Herman Cain
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. — Tory Burch
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. — Paul Graham
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. — Zig Ziglar
I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder. — Robert Kiyosaki
I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue. — Meryl Streep
Going Up The Ladder Quotes
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
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
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
Moving Up The Ladder Quotes
The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong. — Rick Santorum
I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. — Hugh Jackman
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. — Wade Boggs
The penalty for not playing along is you will be socially-jailed from moving up the ladder. — Bryant H. McGill
I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have. — J. C. Watts
Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement. — Lois Wyse
Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder. — Kevin Madden
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
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. — Warren W. Wiersbe
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Rumi
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
Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.” There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder? — Richelle Mead
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. — Victoria Moran
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. — Jeffrey Sachs
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. — Erich Fromm
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