Stairs Quotes

• There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 15, 2014

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

  Ed McBain

  Wisdom, World, Made

  Ed McBain (1986). “Eight Black Horses”

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• It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Success, Vision

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• Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

  David Levithan

  Funny Love, Funny Life, Elevators

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.124, Egmont UK

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• All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Challenges, Rising

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• Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fall, Learning, Looks

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• Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Climbs, Stairways

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• The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Broken, Elevators

  "Her Source Exclusive: Lauren London & Jenifer Lewis Talk ‘Baggage Claim’". The Source Interview, thesource.com. September 19, 2013.

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• Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

  Rita Zahara

  Success, Hard Work, Cutting

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• Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Light, Lessons

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• We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  My Friends

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• In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, House, Lovely

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.37, Bantam

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• Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Climbing, Steep

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

  Joe Girard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Joe Girard, Robert Casemore (1979). “How to Sell Yourself”, Simon & Schuster

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• Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

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• I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

  Drew Barrymore

  Childhood, Elevators, Felt

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• The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Funny Work

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• Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ethics, Awareness, Goodness

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• No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

  Stella Young

  Flight, Made, Ramp

  "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

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• Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

  Langston Hughes

  Splinters, Crystals

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.60, University of Missouri Press

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• The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Love Is, Best Times

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• I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Running, People, Kind

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• Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

  Bernard Baruch

  Running, Heart, Two

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