Ladders Quotes

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

  Rumi

  Lamps, Lifeboats

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

  Bob Dylan

  Stars, Forever, May

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

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• If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Wall, Priorities In Life

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Failure, Funny Graduation, Pockets

  "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

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• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Preparation, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

  Steven Morrissey

  Snakes, Tricky

  "'Somebody has to be me'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2004.

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• 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

  Success, People, Middle

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• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.

  Thomas Huxley

  Off To College, Focus On Goals

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.304, Cambridge University Press

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• The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

  Charles de Lint

  Life, Real, Thinking

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Motivational, Courage

  "Clare Boothe Luce". Reader's Digest, May 1979.

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• Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Mistake, Steps

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• Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

  Rumi

  House, Soul, Shepherds

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• 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

  Christian, Wall, Tragedy

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• You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

  Emil Zatopek

  Sports, Goal, Trying

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Aggravation, Heaven, Decline

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• 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 Huxley

  Perseverance, Men, Feet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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• I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Fall, Want

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of the group that is doing well in this system, you owe it to yourself and to others to look out for them and make sure you are always building a ladder for others to join you.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mother, Law, Groups

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Way, Steps

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

  Bum Phillips

  Nfl, Splinters, Slides

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, People, Achieve

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