155 Ladders Quotes

Following is our list of ladders quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about as you climb the ladder of success.

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Famous Ladders Quotes

You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Climb the ladder to success escalator style — The Notorious B.I.G.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. - Rose of Lima

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

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 can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne

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

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. - Zig Ziglar

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

Short Ladders Quotes

  • 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
  • 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
  • The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down. — American Proverbs
  • You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie
  • The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand
  • Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • 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

Ladders Image Quotes

Ladders quote The way up the ladder is open to everybody.
The way up the ladder is open to everybody.

Climbing The Success Ladder Quotes

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

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

Ladders quote The way up the ladder is open to everybody.
The way up the ladder is open to everybody.

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

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

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

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung. — James Cash Penney

Ladder Inspirational Quotes

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

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion. — Tony Robbins

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight

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

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. — Sholem Asch

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

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. — Joseph Campbell

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders. — David Moody

I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot). — Anne-Marie Slaughter

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. — Bahá'u'lláh

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite. — Rabindranath Tagore

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success! — Joyce Meyer

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould

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

Level Of Success Quotes

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor. — T. D. Jakes

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. — Patrick Lencioni

That's why so few people end up succeeding, because the level of tenacity you have to show is insane. — Tom Bilyeu

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. — Joshua Waitzkin

Your physiology determines the level of success you will achieve. — Gary Brecka

When brands run podcasts, they stand a chance of taking their success to the next level. — Vladimer Botsvadze

Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls. — Suresh Raina

Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. — Jon Gordon

Ladder Of Success Quotes

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 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

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. — Stephen Covey

You cannot be successful without failure. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered. — Joseph F. Lamb

Even if you are at the peak of your career, and almost everyone is on some type of ladder to success and waiting to get to the top of their profession, but even if you get there is it enough? So think of this now rather than when you get there and not have thought about it before. — Nicky Gumbel

Climbing The Ladder Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself. — Icelandic Proverbs

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

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

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

Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down. — Bulgarian Proverbs

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. — Erich Fromm

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

... 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

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

Climbing Up The Ladder Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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