Ladder Quotes

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

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.

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.