Ladders Quotes

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

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.

When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

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.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

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

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

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.

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

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

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

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

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