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The future will never bend to the fleeting hopes of the man."From "Lucifer's Ladder: God of the Fallen, Book One -- W.D. Frank
Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music! -- Gregg Allman
Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature. -- Larry Dossey
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. -- David Mitchell
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. -- Paul J. Meyer
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce
I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff. -- Ben Barnes
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. -- Ayn Rand
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. -- Saint Augustine
We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life. -- Hillary Clinton
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. -- Joely Richardson
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
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition. -- Nicki Minaj
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
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
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. -- Ted Cruz
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. -- George Eliot
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. -- Herbert Hoover
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
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
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? -- Henry David Thoreau
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. -- W. Clement Stone
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. -- Emil Zatopek
Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal. -- Thomas Perez
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. -- River Phoenix
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load? -- Gail Collins
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. -- Napoleon Hill
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. -- Zig Ziglar
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. -- Zig Ziglar
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. -- Stephen Covey
When levitation fails, a ladder prevails. -- Becky Stark
You can't climb the ladder of success... -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Climb the ladder to success escalator style -- The Notorious B.I.G.
The cross is the ladder to heaven. -- Thomas Draxe
Step by step the ladder is ascended. -- George Herbert
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty -- Morgan Freeman
Life is a ladder, it's not a bed -- Zig Ziglar
Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. -- Andrew Murray
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. -- Rumi
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success -- Stephen Covey
Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. -- Sholem Asch
Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path. -- Arianna Huffington
There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
International football is one clog further up the football ladder -- Glenn Hoddle
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder. -- Noel Fielding
Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on. -- Michael Marmot
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. -- Walter Scott
Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?! -- CM Punk
Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder. -- Stephen Reid
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon. -- Thomas Huxley
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. -- Paul Graham
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. -- Erich Fromm
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. -- George Bernard Shaw
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it. -- Bum Phillips
I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights. -- Simon Fowler
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake -- Salman Rushdie
The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. -- Jerry Hall
The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold. -- George Dana Boardman Pepper
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. -- Havelock Ellis
Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. -- Louis C. K.
In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder. -- Robert M. Hensel
The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder. -- Harry Hill
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West
That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net. -- Neil Patrick Harris
They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall. -- Russell M. Nelson
Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? -- Joshua E. Leyenhorst
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher. -- Rumi
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? -- Karl Pilkington
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, -- Robert Lowell
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top. -- William Feather
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. -- Charles de Lint
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. -- Mercedes McCambridge
I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have. -- J. C. Watts
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. -- Rose of Lima
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. -- Skeet Ulrich
The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world... -- Rumi
One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. -- Michael Andretti
You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. -- Lawrence Durrell
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. -- Doris Grumbach
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. -- Saint Augustine
When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you -- Adrienne Clarkson
Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. -- Alex Berenson
Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder. -- Ken Rosenthal
I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself -- Albert Einstein
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. -- Ed Markey
No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung. -- James Cash Penney
Beneath my dress is a ladder of desire,that I climb tonight and each night after that. -- Zoë Brigley (Thompson)
You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. -- Lil Wayne
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. -- William Faulkner
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world -- Mick Foley
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. -- Andrew Carnegie
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. -- Bob Dylan
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. -- Huey Lewis
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. -- Harry Anderson
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. -- Stephen Covey
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. -- Kate Jacobs
The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way. -- Seth Godin
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder. -- George MacDonald
Climb the ladder of success, by always presenting your best self. Practice being exceptional at what you do. -- Mark F. LaMoure
They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder. -- Dolly Parton
Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole. -- J. Cole
If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success. -- Evan Esar
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. -- Mitch Daniels
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. -- Bobby Knight
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God. -- J. C. Ryle
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. -- Eoin Colfer
Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall. -- Stephen Covey
Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets. -- Zig Ziglar

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