Top Of The Ladder Quotes

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

Bobby Knight

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

Stephen Covey

#3. Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Richard Benyo

#4. I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.

Hattie Carnegie

#5. Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

#6. The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

Bill Anderson

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Joseph Campbell

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

Henry Blackaby

#14. A person does not have to be religious to reach the top of the Ladder of Success; but every one that step onto the Ladder of Success, must have hope.

Ellen J. Barrier

#15. No one makes it to the "top" by themselves. Each step you take is guided by at least one person's blood, sweat and tears. Appreciate those who stand behind you as you rise. They are the only ones who will catch you if you fall. The ladder of success is steadiest when someone's there to support it.

Carlos Wallace

#16. The ability to forge a unique path with occasional dips, detours, and even dead ends presents a better chance for fulfillment. Plus, a jungle gym provides great views for many people, not just those at the top. On a ladder, most climbers are stuck staring at the butt of the person above.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

William Feather

#25. So if givers are most likely to land at the bottom of the success ladder, who's at the top - takers or matchers? Neither. When I took another look at the data, I discovered a surprising pattern: It's the givers again.

Adam M. Grant

#26. 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

#27. Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top.

Ellen J. Barrier

#28. FOR THE LADDER OF SUCCESS IS NOT CROWDED AT THE TOP.

Obi

#29. I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

Iain Duncan Smith

#30. Our steel-tipped step-ladder arrows will let us rescue that injured stork that settled down on top of the obelisk and can't fly away!

Robert Bernstein

#31. When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

Benny Bellamacina

#32. Don't be afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder. And have the courage to climb to the top.

Rosenthal

#33. Dr. Robert Hare, one of the foremost researchers on sociopathy, believes that a sociopath is four times more likely to be at the top of the corporate ladder than in the janitor's closet, due to the close match between the personality traits of sociopaths and the unusual demands of high-powered jobs.

M.E. Thomas