Ladders Quotes - Page 2

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  W. Clement Stone

  Positive, Attitude, Failure

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• From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

  Rumi

  Past, World, Moments

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• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  Saint Augustine

  Vices, Ifs

  'Sermons' bk. 3 'De Ascensione'

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• There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

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• I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Trying, Casting, Climbs

  "Neil Patrick Harris is just keeping busy". Interview with T.L. Stanley, articles.latimes.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

  Ron White

  Long, Guy, Looks

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• The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

  Jerry Hall

  Flesh, Shows, Higher

  "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.

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

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Crowds

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• 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

  Two, Nails, Way

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  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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• I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

  Craig Charles

  Real, Nice, Very Nice

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• If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Humble, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

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• Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

  Alan Judd

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

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• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Stars, Men, Poetry

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

  Ed Markey

  Opportunity, Investment, Our Future

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• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Jung

  Hiking, Hands, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

  William Greider

  Country, Retirement, Years

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• I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

  Mike Epps

  Thinking, People, Knows

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

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• 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.

  River Phoenix

  Climbing, Hands, Hiking

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

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

  Erich Fromm

  Injustice, Mask, Social

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Freedom, Giving

  "All about ECK".

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• 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

  Wally Schirra

  Pilots, Tests, Steps

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• The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Perfection, Might

  Anthony Trollope (1873). “The Eustace diamonds”, p.113

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• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

  Harry Anderson

  New Orleans, Lunch, Hiking

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