Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down…

— John Shirley

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

— Charles de Lint

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

— Mitch Daniels

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down...…

— Forest Whitaker

Life is a ladder one goes up the other goes down

— Funny Mami

“Fact of life: when a ladder and I went in hand to hand combat, the ladder would always win.”

— Nicole Williams

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

— Zig Ziglar

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.

— James Cash Penney

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

— Seth Godin

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

— Morgan Freeman

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

— Michael Andretti

I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for…

— James Badge Dale

In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.

— Robert M. Hensel

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

— Martha Stewart