Ladder Quotes
362 Ladder quotes by 297 unique authors
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I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the…
— Richard G. Scott
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If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb…
— Frederick Lenz
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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the…
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A…
— Paul Hamilton Hayne
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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.
— Emily Dickinson
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I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook…
— Gordon Bell
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And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your…
— George H. W. Bush
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I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves,…
— Trent Reznor
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They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
— Dolly Parton
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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
— Seth Godin
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Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
— Stephen Reid
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
— Charles de Lint
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
— Erich Fromm
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
— Stephen Covey
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Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
— Louis C. K.
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As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
— Mitch Daniels
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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…
— George Eliot
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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…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
— Havelock Ellis
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I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.
— Neil Patrick Harris
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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
— Napoleon Hill
Who Wrote These Ladder Quotes
297 authors contributed a total of 362 Ladder Quotes, led by these top contributors: