Ladders famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.
-- Bob Dylan -
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
-- Bobby Knight -
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.
-- Bonaventure -
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
-- Bum Phillips -
When you got a dream, you don't just climb half way up the ladder, you climb all the way to the top
-- Cher Lloyd -
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
-- Chris Hayes -
Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!
-- CM Punk -
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
-- Craig Charles -
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
-- Dan Millman -
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 -
Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.
-- David Moody -
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.
-- Diane Ravitch -
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.
-- Doris Grumbach -
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
-- Ed Markey -
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
-- Erich Fromm -
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
-- Fatboy Slim -
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
-- George Eliot -
International football is one clog further up the football ladder
-- Glenn Hoddle -
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
-- Havelock Ellis -
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.
-- Herbert Hoover -
Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.
-- Hilda Doolittle -
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
-- Iain Duncan Smith -
I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
-- J. C. Watts -
Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.
-- J. Cole -
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
-- Jack Nicholson -
As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.
-- James McGreevey -
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
-- Jeffrey Sachs -
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.
-- Jeffrey Sachs -
The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.
-- Jerry Hall -
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.
-- Joan Jett -
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
-- Joely Richardson -
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
-- John Green -
When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.
-- John H. Johnson -
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.
-- John Shirley -
There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.
-- Johnny Cash -
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
-- Joseph Campbell -
When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?
-- Karl Pilkington -
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.
-- Kate Jacobs -
Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.
-- Ken Rosenthal -
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
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.
-- Madeleine Albright -
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.
-- Martha Stewart -
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.
-- Max Nordau -
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
-- Mercedes McCambridge -
One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.
-- Michael Andretti -
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world
-- Mick Foley -
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.
-- Mike Caro -
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
-- Mitch Daniels -
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
-- Napoleon Hill -
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
-- Niger Innis -
To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.
-- Norman Mailer -
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.
-- P. G. Wodehouse -
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.
-- P. M. Forni -
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
-- Paul Twitchell -
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.
-- Rachel Maddow -
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 -
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
-- Rumi -
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
-- Saint Augustine -
Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.
-- Sholem Asch -
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
-- Skeet Ulrich -
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
-- Stephen Covey -
Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
-- Stephen Reid -
Climb the ladder to success escalator style
-- The Notorious B.I.G. -
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.
-- Tim Pratt -
Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
-- Tom Stoppard -
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
-- Tory Burch -
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.
-- Victoria Moran -
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
-- Walter Scott -
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
-- William Faulkner -
Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
-- William Feather -
Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
-- Zig Ziglar -
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
-- Zoe Saldana -
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
-- Edward Brooke -
The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.
-- George Dana Boardman Pepper -
I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.
-- Hattie Carnegie -
Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.
-- Linda Hirshman -
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.
-- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -
Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.
-- Suw Charman-Anderson -
I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.
-- Tim Kang -
Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
-- Victoria Chang -
If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
-- Alan Bersin -
Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.
-- Michael Marmot -
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.
-- Ron Brown -
I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
-- Harry Hill
