Climbing Quote by Thomas Merton

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

— Stephen Covey

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

— Anonymous

So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

— Joseph Campbell

“There is nothing worse than climbing a ladder to the top, only to discover that it is leaning on the wrong wall. That is…

— Fela Durotoye

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

— Henry Blackaby

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

— Robert M. Hensel

The ladder of success must be set upon something solid before you can start to climb

— Voltaire

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

— Seth Godin

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from…

— Madeleine Albright

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

— George Herbert

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

— Russell M. Nelson