Ladders Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  Mae West

  Funny, Success, Girl

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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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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• Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Heart, Rags

  Last Poems (1939) "The Circus Animals' Desertion" pt. 3

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