Ladder Quotes

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. (Mae West)
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. View quote
Havelock Ellis
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. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. View quote
Stephen Covey
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214. (Melody Beattie)
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. View quote
Ed Markey
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. View quote
River Phoenix
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. View quote
Charles de Lint
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. View quote
Robert Mugabe
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. View quote
Edmond de Goncourt
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. View quote
Umberto Eco
The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone ... Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder. View quote
George Carlin
St. 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! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition. (Nicki Minaj)
[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider. View quote
E. M. Forster
Heaven is not gained by 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. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall. View quote
Joseph Campbell