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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

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top. — William Feather

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. — Alex Berenson

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne. — William Shakespeare

In the corporate world, what is not showcased well simply doesn't exist for any practical purpose! — Abhishek Ratna

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

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him ... — Abraham Verghese

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

You don't want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall. — Jack Canfield

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

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

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

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall. — Donald Rumsfeld

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight

He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. — Andrew Murray

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education. — Martin O'Malley

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

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. — George Bernard Shaw

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

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails. — Jack Nicholson

Step by step the ladder is ascended. — George Herbert

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

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

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

People change; sometimes they go up the ladder and sometimes they go down. — Stephen King

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung. — James Cash Penney

Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow — Dean Cavanagh

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

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

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

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

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

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants. — Kendare Blake

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

When climbing the ladder of success, haters, not gravity, try to pull you down. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

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

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. — Margaret Heffernan

Be good to the people on your way up the ladder cause you'll ,meet them on your way down. — Robert Junior

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. — Stephen Covey

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

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. — Joseph Campbell

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

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand

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. — Ron White

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

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down. — John Ortberg

Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience. — Vikrmn

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

So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder. — Mark Twain

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

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it. — Karl Urban

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

Some people try to climb the ladder of success, while others try to jump on it — Josh Stern

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

Determination is the first step of ladder to show Efficiency. — Kishore Bansal

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

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. — Clare Boothe Luce

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

Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar

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

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 the building. — Madeleine Albright

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

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top — Benny Bellamacina

It's only when you're at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend. — Gina Barreca

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

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

I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?"
"My ladder's at home. — Elizabeth Scott

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

morality is the change that falls from your pockets when you climb up the ladder. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

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

Don't just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once ... never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step-RVM — R.v.m.

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

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