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Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The bar is high. But now you have a ladder. — Larry Brooks

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good — Tony Benn

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development. — Auliq Ice

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb
if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend. — John Shirley

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. — Erich Fromm

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. — Harry Anderson

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Rumi

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. — Paulo Coelho

A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children. — Moby

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world — Mick Foley

"If we are truly the Lord's, we all walk with a limp" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

*Note: 'Jacobs Ladder'. — R. Alan Woods

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. — Justin Cronin

Talent is like a ladder, it'll take you up to God or down to Hell. It depends on how you use it. — Guy Johnson

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise. — Charles Spurgeon

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. — Thomas Henry Huxley

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain. — Heidi Julavits

If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Climb up the ladder one step at a time, moving gracefully to the rhythm of your own heart.
- from the essay, On The Side of Time, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time — Benny Bellamacina

Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch. — Chip Heath

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh. — Jimmy Carr

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond De Goncourt

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. — James Allen

In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it. — Ellen J. Barrier

And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young. — Hans Borli

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 through thought. — Frederick Lenz

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. — Nicholas Kristof

Ladies first." He places a hand on the ladder and gives it a pat.

As I step in front of him, my shoulder brushes against his chest. — Shannon Duffy

I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder. — Harry Hill

If you're going to buy a castle, make sure you get on the property extension ladder. — Benny Bellamacina

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life. — Hillary Clinton

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 writes novels. — P.G. Wodehouse

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. — Walter Scott

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street. — Penelope Cruz

Heat rushes up my neck and I fall off a ladder holding a paintbrush dipped in red. — Tahereh Mafi

Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path. — Arianna Huffington

Man of wisdom doesn't need a ladder, because he is the ladder itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould

Love, I think, is by necessity constructed of a ladder of lies you climb together. — Kimberly Elkins

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle. — Mike Caro

Your gonna need a spaceshuttle or a ladder that's forever to get on my level. — Lil' Wayne

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets. — Zig Ziglar

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. — Tory Burch

When you got a dream,
you don't just climb half way up the ladder,
you climb all the way to the top — Cher Lloyd

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right? — Dave Eggers

Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. — Saint Augustine

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder. — Craig Charles

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours. — Rajneesh

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? — Karl Pilkington

A person does not have to be religious to reach the top of the Ladder of Success; but every one that step onto the Ladder of Success, must have hope. — Ellen J. Barrier

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. — William Faulkner

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. — Henry Adams

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out. — Tony Parsons

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind. — Elena Ferrante

A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur. — Peter Clines

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. — Doris Grumbach

Bring anger and pride under your feet,
turn them into a ladder and climb higher. — Rumi

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it. — Bum Phillips

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell

Jacob's Ladder represents a bridge between Jacob's secular mindset to make it in this world and the reality of Heavenly things. — R.C. Sproul

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. — Sholem Asch

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like. — Laurence J. Peter

Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar — Liaquat Ahamed

A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder. — Simcha Raz

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder. — Rumi

This world has turned into a place where you can get stabbed in the back for trying climbing a ladder. — Jose N. Harris

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. — Mitch Daniels

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder. — Dolly Parton

All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Destiny is a ladder, a series of steps that takes you where you're supposed to go. — Mariana Zapata

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

You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder. — Noel Fielding

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil' Wayne

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. — Andrew Carnegie

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. — Michael Andretti

Amy: This time can we ... lose the bunk beds?
The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that! — Neil Gaiman

Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order. — Debasish Mridha

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. — Mercedes McCambridge

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. — Jackie Speier

I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights. — Simon Fowler

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. — Bob Dylan

There is nothing worse than climbing a ladder to the top, only to discover that it is leaning on the wrong wall. That is DEFECTIVE SUCCESS. — Fela Durotoye

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. — Hugh Jackman

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday. — Omar Suleiman

Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.-max — James Patterson

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it. — John H. Johnson

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart

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

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. — Charles De Lint

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building! — Dave Ramsey

It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If it's taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift. — Benny Bellamacina

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