Quotes About Climbing The Ladder Of Success

#1. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

#2. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

Stephen R. Covey

#3. If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

Stephen Covey

#4. We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. When climbing the ladder of success, haters, not gravity, try to pull you down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Richard Rohr

#7. In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

Ellen J. Barrier

#8. Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#9. Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

John Naughton

#10. Life is not straightforward: relationships bifurcate; there is nothing more complicated, more confounding, than love.

Sarah Hall

#11. Few women can resist a Scotsman. No woman can resist a Highlander." ~ A truth known by every female living.

Tarah Scott

#12. A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Bear Grylls

#13. What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?!

Eddie Izzard

#14. We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

Frederick Lenz

#15. 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

#16. Success is climbing all the way up failure's steep ladder.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Bucky Pope

#18. A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of the provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover

Richard Neutra

#19. We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

River Phoenix

#20. 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

#21. Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?"
She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door.
"You hardly ever make the jump.

Nora Roberts

#22. Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

George Ripley

#23. I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Seth Godin

#24. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#25. You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

Hope Davis

#26. Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

Wendell Berry