Quotes on Ladders

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

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

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?

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

Bring anger and pride under your feet, _x000D_ turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

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

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

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

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.