Ladder Quotes

“A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.”
― Eoin Colfer, Airman

“Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.”
― Alain de Botton

“Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.”
― Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

“If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“I must work hard - not to climb the ladder, but to do important work.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“SEE what you think.”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”
― Edward Tufte

“Will, what do you see when you look at that?"
"A fence"
"Yeah, a fence. Used to contain something, keep it trapped. A prison, perhaps." *Bends her head* "But when I look at it like THIS... to me it looks like a ladder. Which is the opposite of a fence. A ladder means escape, freedom.”
― Laura Lee Gulledge, Will & Whit

“In Indian society every institution – prayer, education, family, beauty, chastity and career – was a rung of the ladder of life, which had to be climbed to reach the top rung, marriage.”
― Meghna Pant, One and a Half Wife

“Sometimes, he gets on my nerves;
At other times, I burn the ladder.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“مهما صنعت من القصائد سُلما ... سأرى الحبيب إليّ ينظر من علِ!”
― حسين أحمد أمين, في بيت أحمد أمين ومقالات أخرى

“Other than a gaping hole, I won’t leave anything in life by taking everything from life. And if I don’t take anything from that statement, I’ll always be living at the bottom of the hole I’ve dug, wondering where I put the ladder I never had.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whatever you do,
Do your best,
It will take you up the ladder
to success”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Courage promotes leaders; fear demotes them. Most people who have difficulties climbing up success ladders are fans of fear.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.”
― Richie Norton

“If you have not prepared your mind yet to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay back home, because the moment you cross the outer edge of your country to another, you will be blown by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you may spend in abroad, you will never return home the same again, it is either the people laugh with you or they at you.”
― Elijah Onyemmeri

“Phroso made no comment on this; and the moment I had said it I heard a voice below, a voice I knew very well.

‘What’s the ladder here for, my friend?’ it asked.

‘It enables one to ascend or descend, my lord,’ answered Kortes’s grave voice, without the least touch of irony.”
― Anthony Hope, Phroso

“Amy ladder to the top of life, might be a ladder to the bottom”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Any ladder to the top of life might be a ladder to the bottom”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“If you have not yet prepared your mind to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay where you are, for the moment you cross the outer edge of your country into another, you will be blown about by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you spend abroad, you will never return home to who you were before, it is either the people laugh with you or they laugh at you.”
― Elijah Onyemmeri

“Remember, the ladder won't get you up unless you go up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you use all your power for the sake of a disgraced person, won"t consider it if you hold hands in the worst time, will say I was a ladder for you to succeed”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“You can go up the ladder of life by running, you can go up slowly, you can go up by stopping from time to time, but you can never go up by sitting all the time!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The ladder of success is made from nails of patience.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Reservations were meant to be a ladder, not a permanent crutch.”
― Dipti Dhakul