Ladder Quotes - page 8

The picture developed – bit by bit while I was working on it – into shapes symbolic of an exuberant figure and ladder.... therefore: 'Jacob's Ladder' [= the title of the painting she made in 1966]. (Helen Frankenthaler)
There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out. View quote
Tony Parsons
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. View quote
Stephen Covey
I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder. View quote
Marco Rubio
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. View quote
Douglas William Jerrold
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them. View quote
Charles Kennedy
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. View quote
Ron White
They sang as they lifted the children into the ship. They sang old space chanteys and helped the children up the ladder one at a time and into the hands of the sisters. They sang heartily to dispel the fright of the little ones. (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
A ladder is the instrument of ascent; it symbolises intensity rising to a climax. this, too, is the meaning of prayer. View quote
Elie Munk
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. View quote
William Faulkner
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder. View quote
Elizabeth Warren
Khomeini was one of some 200 Ayatollahs and never considered by others as "supreme" in anything. His limited knowledge of theology and history and his inability to master Persian and Arabic at a high level meant he would never attain the summit within the Shi'ite clerical hierarchy. Khomeini was a politician and owed his place in the Iranian panorama to the success of his political movement against various rivals and adversaries. Khamenei's knowledge of theology and history is certainly superior to that of Khomeini. He also has a better command of both Persian and Arabic. Had Khamenei built a career within the Shi'ite clerical hierarchy he would have had a good chance of reaching higher rungs of the ladder than Khomeini. View quote
Amir Taheri
Unfairness existed, it always had and it always would, and the miracle, to Sharpe's eyes, was that some men like Hill and Wellesley, though they had become wealthy and privileged through unfair advantages, were nevertheless superb at what they did. [...] Sharpe did not care that Sir Arthur Wellesley was the son of an aristocrat and had purchased his way up the ladder of promotion and was as cold as a lawyer's sense of charity. The long-nosed bugger knew how to win and that was what mattered. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love But all God's angels come to us disguised Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have. View quote
J. C. Watts
No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to the evolutionary ladder. View quote
Terry Pratchett
When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk. (Condoleezza Rice)
If the ego is pulled toward the world, it makes a wall. If the same ego is pulled toward God, it makes a ladder. View quote
Baba Hari Dass
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. View quote
Joseph L. Mankiewicz