Ladder Quotes

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

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

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

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?

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

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

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.

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

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.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

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.

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.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.