Top 100 A Ladder Quotes
#1. From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.
Rumi
#2. I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.
Diane Setterfield
#3. The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.
Rumi
#4. The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.
Larry Brooks
#6. The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.
John H. Johnson
#8. Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.
R.S. Thomas
#9. We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
#10. 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
#11. Usually, you could rely on Americans to believe the worst about their heroes, but nobody wanted to hear that America's ascent to the Moon had been made with a ladder of bones.
Michael Chabon
#12. Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.
Omar Suleiman
#13. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.
Bob Dylan
#14. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Rumi
#15. If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Saint Augustine
#16. The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
Charles De Lint
#17. Heat rushes up my neck and I fall off a ladder holding a paintbrush dipped in red.
Tahereh Mafi
#18. A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur.
Peter Clines
#19. Fact of life: when a ladder and I went in hand to hand combat, the ladder would always win.
Nicole Williams
#21. This world has turned into a place where you can get stabbed in the back for trying climbing a ladder.
Jose N. Harris
#22. I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.
Karen Marie Moning
#23. Talent is like a ladder, it'll take you up to God or down to Hell. It depends on how you use it.
Guy Johnson
#24. Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. He was standing on a ladder when he said it, which made it seem almost Shakespearean.
Rainbow Rowell
#27. You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
Tony Parsons
#28. I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.
Simon Fowler
#29. If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
Maria Montessori
#30. There is nothing worse than climbing a ladder to the top, only to discover that it is leaning on the wrong wall. That is DEFECTIVE SUCCESS.
Fela Durotoye
#31. Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
Penelope Cruz
#32. 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
#33. Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
Albert Einstein
#34. The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ...
Rumi
#35. Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down.
Jennifer L. Lane
#36. Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear.
He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
Lisa Kleypas
#37. Belief is both prize and battlefield, within the mind and in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confrontation, exploitation, and bestiality, such a humanity is surely brought into being
David Mitchell
#38. Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.
Agatha Christie
#39. Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#40. Reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad
L. Frank Baum
#41. Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections ... science is a ladder ... poetry is a winged flight ... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time ... Dante does not efface Homer.
Victor Hugo
#42. Letter 84
An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.
A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.
My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.
These letters are ladders to you.
Gregory Colbert
#43. Sometimes the problem is recognizing what's right in front of you, because what might look like a huge stone, blocking your way, is realy a ladder leading to all new heights, you just have to find the right hand holds.
S.L. Rogers
#44. When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.
Becky Stark
#45. We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.
Jasper Fforde
#46. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
Rumi
#47. A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
Eoin Colfer
#48. All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.
Victor Hugo
#49. Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Ed Markey
#50. A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond De Goncourt
#51. 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.
Max Nordau
#52. There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, "It's a shame that he has to die." And Jesus is saying, "Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!
Sam Kinison
#53. Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.
John O'Donohue
#54. 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.
Baha'u'llah
#55. 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
#57. America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Nicholas Kristof
#58. The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God's people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.
Colin S. Smith
#59. Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder."
"I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle."
"I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall."
"Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.
Obert Skye
#60. If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#61. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#62. In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.
Bonaventure
#63. Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
Zig Ziglar
#64. Amy: This time can we ... lose the bunk beds?
The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!
Neil Gaiman
#65. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words.
Baha'u'llah
#66. If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world
Mick Foley
#67. Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it's all just nice intellectual theory.
Felicia Day
#68. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#70. For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
Salman Rushdie
#71. Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
Rajneesh
#72. If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau
#73. Man of wisdom doesn't need a ladder, because he is the ladder itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?
Karl Pilkington
#75. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
#76. Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. Bring anger and pride under your feet,
turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
Rumi
#78. 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
#79. 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.
P. M. Forni
#80. You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder.
Noel Fielding
#81. We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.
Hillary Clinton
#82. 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
#85. There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot
#86. The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
Seth Godin
#87. I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#88. 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.
Umberto Eco
#89. Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.
Marty Rubin
#90. Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
Robert Lowell
#91. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.
Tom Baker
#93. There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
Cate Blanchett
#94. I'm so short I tread water in the kiddie pool. I need a ladder to get to the bottom bunk. I hit my head on the ground when I sneeze. I need a running start to reach the toilet. And no, I'm not related to Tom Cruise.
Michael Robotham
#95. Destiny is a ladder, a series of steps that takes you where you're supposed to go.
Mariana Zapata
#96. Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right?
Dave Eggers
#97. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#98. Space is about 100 kilometers away. That's far away - I wouldn't want to climb a ladder to get there - but it isn't that far away. If you're in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.
Randall Munroe
#99. To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
Rose Macaulay
#100. If you get to the top of the ladder by pushing people off, you'll find that there won't be a ladder left or people to help you get back down.
Aliza Licht
