Top 100 Ladder Quotes
#1. Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.
Regina O'Melveny
#2. I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.
Robert Kiyosaki
#3. 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
#4. 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.
P.G. Wodehouse
#5. And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."
George H. W. Bush
#6. The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.
Jerry Hall
#7. In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
Jack Nicholson
#8. When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.
Heidi Julavits
#9. I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#10. I do declare! I'd rather jump barefoot off a six-foot step ladder into a five-gallon bucket full of porcupines than see anything gad happen to you."
"I don'y think that's necessary , but the situation scares me a little
Ashlyn Chase
#11. Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
Huey Lewis
#12. In today's time, no other 'charity' is acceptable or practical than the 'wisdom' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success.
Deep Trivedi
#13. As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Robert Breault
#14. 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
#15. The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.
Rick Santorum
#16. Ladies first." He places a hand on the ladder and gives it a pat.
As I step in front of him, my shoulder brushes against his chest.
Shannon Duffy
#17. You don't want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.
Jack Canfield
#18. I said "show me the ladder, that I may climb up to heaven '
He said "your head is the ladder, bring your head down under your feet
Rumi
#19. Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time
Benny Bellamacina
#20. Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
Emma Goldman
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.
Michael Pollan
#26. Destiny is a ladder, a series of steps that takes you where you're supposed to go.
Mariana Zapata
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. One only gets to the top rung on 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
#30. When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
Tony Benn
#31. 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
#32. Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
Rose Of Lima
#33. If it's taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift.
Benny Bellamacina
#34. Sometimes, it is not about the skillset or talent alone but behavior and attitude is part of the ladder moing to the next steps
Bel
#35. I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
Tory Burch
#36. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder ... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe
#41. No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
James Cash Penney
#42. I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'How do I get into radio, how do I get into telly?' and I wish there was an answer, because there's no ladder. There are no parameters. You've just got to go in wherever you can, make the tea, and slowly make your way up the ladder.
Terry Wogan
#43. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.
James McGreevey
#45. Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience.
Vikrmn
#46. Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs
#47. Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
Robert Lowell
#48. Some people try to climb the ladder of success, while others try to jump on it
Josh Stern
#50. I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
Harry Hill
#51. Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.
Marty Rubin
#52. Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.
Graham Joyce
#53. Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.
Mike Caro
#54. The ladder of success is there waiting for you ... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.
Noor Ahmad
#55. Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#56. 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
#57. Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!
Gregg Allman
#58. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
Margaret Heffernan
#59. After a few minutes, Molly came partway up the short ladder to the bridge and stopped. "Do I need to ask permission to come up there or something?"
"Why would you?" I asked.
She considered. "It's what they do on Star Trek?
Jim Butcher
#60. 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
#62. It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges.
Vishwas Chavan
#63. The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
Seth Godin
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
Zig Ziglar
#67. Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
Edmund Phelps
#68. Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.
Sophia Amoruso
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.
Ron White
#73. Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
Henry Adams
#74. There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder
and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.
Joseph Campbell
#75. In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.
Auliq Ice
#76. Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
Dave Ramsey
#77. They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
Dolly Parton
#78. If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world
Mick Foley
#79. Allport suggested that self-esteem can often be a goal in itself: "most people want to be higher on the status ladder than they are" (p. 371). However, self-enhancement can be based in avoidance as well as approach motives. Insecurity
Anonymous
#80. If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Stephen R. Covey
#81. In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
Skeet Ulrich
#82. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
Levi-Strauss
#83. As they ran to the barn and began the careful climb up the steep ladder, Lily realized she had accidentally put on snow boots in her hurry. When they reached the top, the quiet hush of the still hayloft gave them that whisper-in-the-library feeling.
Kate Willis
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. Stephen Covey says, "Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building." Step
Brian Tracy
#88. Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
Stephen Reid
#90. 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
#91. Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.
Sara Sheridan
#93. For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
Salman Rushdie
#94. 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
#95. That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#96. Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
J.G. Holland
#97. We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.
Hillary Clinton
#98. A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
Moby
#99. Don't climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven't truly earned is a great way to get stuck in the land of Learning for decades, even an entire lifetime. Kick those ladders over and keep on walking.
Jon Acuff
#100. According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.
Jeremy Narby
