Ladders Quotes - Page 2

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

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.

Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.

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

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

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

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

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

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy.

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.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

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.