Ladder Quotes

362 Ladder quotes by 297 unique authors

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. — Ron White
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… — P.G. Wodehouse
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… — Emil Zatopek
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined… — Tullian Tchividjian
May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you.… — Bob Dylan
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and… — Melody Beattie
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over… — Leo Tolstoy
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. — Kate Jacobs
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. — Eoin Colfer
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill… — Kelley Armstrong
It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you… — David Sedaris
In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters… — David Sedaris
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder… — Umberto Eco
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,… — Margaret Atwood
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never… — Banana Yoshimoto
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into… — Tim Pratt
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh,… — Leif Enger
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives… — Anais Nin
But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world… — Alexandre Dumas
That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me. — Arthur Schopenhauer
My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to… — Jim Butcher

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