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 Huxley

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

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

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

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

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

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe

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

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

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Andrew Carnegie

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