Ladders Quotes - Page 6

• As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Long, Understanding

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• I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find
  no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions.

  George W Truett

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

  Rose Macaulay

  Ambition, Lunch, Goal

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

  William Feather

  Work, Men, Hardest

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

  Maria Montessori

  Dog, Two, Challenges

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Typewriters, Skills

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Eye, World

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.62, Macmillan

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• To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

  Arthur Honegger

  Wall, Writing, Miracle

  1951 I Am a Composer.

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• Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.

  R. S. Thomas

  Men, Blood, Sweat

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Country, Past, Rich Countries

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

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• Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Men, Wings, Heaven

  "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.

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• Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

  Robert Jastrow

  Simple, Years, Records

  Robert Jastrow (1969). “White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars”

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

  Steve Harvey

  Inspirational, Hurt, Father

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. 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. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

  Doris Grumbach

  Hands, Fists, Grasping

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Pay, Reason

  "Coming to a Post Office Near You: Loans You Can Trust?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 01, 2014.

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

  Zig Ziglar

  Moving, Maturity, Makeup

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• 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

  Opportunity, America, Generations

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• The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Dream, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2008). “What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.180, Zondervan

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• Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

  Thomas Perez

  Strong, Opportunity, College

  "Investing in Skills to Build a Secure Middle Class" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

  David Rudisha

  Climbing Up, Race, Training

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• Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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