Ladders Quotes - Page 18

• People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

  Thomas Merton

  Wall, Climbing, People

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• The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Humility, Son

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• Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

  Omar Suleiman

  Wall, School, Kids

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Oct 26, 2014

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• The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.

  Rumi

  World, Helping, Born

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• There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Son, Doors, Bridges

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• It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Way, Lifetime

  Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

  Feet, Keys, Development

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• Bring anger and pride under your feet,
  turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

  Rumi

  Pride, Feet, Turns

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• The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Past, Climbing

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.44, Zondervan

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• Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Heaven, Titles

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.48, Editora Dracaena

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• Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

  J. Cole

  Roles, Life Is, Holes

  Song: How High, 2011

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• Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stress, Giving, Goal

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• 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

  Would Be, Care, Ifs

  "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?

  Brigid Schulte

  Children, Smart, Home

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.131, A&C Black

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• And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.

  Hans Børli

  Light, Blue, Tree

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• Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Twilight, Heart, Shining

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1860). “Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos. With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic”, p.79

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• No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sky, Wings, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

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• I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

  Gordon Bell

  Memories, Fire, House

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• And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

  George H. W. Bush

  Girl, White, House

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

  Trent Reznor

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

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• Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

  Stephen Reid

  Prison, Welfare, Bottom

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• When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

  John H. Johnson

  Cry, Curse, Over It

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• Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Angel, Feet

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.111

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• [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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Attitude, Animal, Discipline

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Army, Men, He Man

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.210, Henry Holt and Company

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