99 Staircase Quotes

Following is our list of staircase quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about the whole staircase.

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Famous Staircase Quotes

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. — Samuel Johnson

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters. — Edmund Clowney

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. - Buddha

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. — Buddha

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. — Ed McBain

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. — Joe Girard

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs. — Jenifer Lewis

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. - Zig Ziglar

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar

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

We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel

Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open. — Zig Ziglar

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. — Mitch Hedberg

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs. — Georges Clemenceau

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. — Hermann Hesse

Short Staircase Quotes

  • Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. — Jason Ellis
  • Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff. — Tablo
  • My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. — Michelangelo
  • We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. — Francis Bacon
  • My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness — Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. — Mitch Hedberg
  • Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today. — Octavio Paz

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Staircase quote Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Stairway Quotes

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. - Roy T. Bennett

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. — Roy T. Bennett

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon

They love the fact you made it, but hate the fact you got it. The stairway to heaven is packed...I'm in the lobby. Too scared to go to sleep, cause most times I often doubt my dreams. — Big K.R.I.T.

Staircase quote Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is. — Robert Plant

There's still time to change the road you're on... - Robert Plant

There's still time to change the road you're on... — Robert Plant

The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways. — Alberto Giacometti

Staircase quote You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write. — Bessie Head

Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible. — Robert Plant

Heaven...a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step and when we ascend, we will live. — Suh Jung

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet. — Robert Plant

Stair 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

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs. — Vance Havner

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. - Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. — Rudyard Kipling

Staircase quote The world is like a grand staircase. Some are going up and some are going down.
The world is like a grand staircase. Some are going up and some are going down.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs. — Marlene Dietrich

Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs. — Vance Havner

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. - Joan Walsh Anglund

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs. — Patricia Briggs

The alphabet was an invention below stairs. — David O. Sacks

You know, Sal, for a long time would hate taking elevators with me. Because he knew when those doors closed I was going to do something stupid to embarrass him. So he'd opt to take the stairs a lot. — Joe Gatto

Stairway To Heaven Quotes

You know sometimes words have two meanings. — Robert Plant

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead). — Stephen King

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway — Black Thought

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven — Stella Young

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me. — Jimmy Page

There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute. — Bill Engvall

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude. — Jane Fonda

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time. — Robin Thicke

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More Staircase Quotes

Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward. — William Butler Yeats

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. — Lisa Gardner

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another. — Kris Carr

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl. — Barbara Stanwyck

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. — Helmut Newton

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius

"Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection. — J. K. Rowling

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. — Robert Breault

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. — Osamu Dazai

Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone. — Massad Ayoob

OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!” Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing. — J. K. Rowling

You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y. — Doug Stanhope

I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days. — Tiny Tim

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball. — Annie Dillard

I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can go back to the staircase shots in "Third Man" or the staircase in "La Dolce Vita." So I just find that visual construction in a frame. — Martin Scorsese

Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley. — Jeremy Clarkson

There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent. — Sarah Vowell

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. — Patti Smith

I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department. — Richard Brautigan

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia? — Jeanne Moreau

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance. — Imogene Coca

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. — Norwood Russell Hanson

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. — David Sedaris

Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I am in my god's hands. He will keep me safe, or he will not, here or on the stairs. — Megan Whalen Turner

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond." — Ben Dreyfuss

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with. — Craig Stone

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