Ladders Quotes - Page 3

When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

When you got a dream, you don't just climb half way up the ladder, you climb all the way to the top

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade."

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.

In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.