Quotes with ladder

  • The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
  • Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
  • Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

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  • Emile Durkheim From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Ayn Rand The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Napoleon Hill The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Trollope The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Andrew Carnegie 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.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Cate Blanchett There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Zig Ziglar You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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