Definition of Ladder

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Ladder

A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.

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Ladder Quotations

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

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

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West

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

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

Ladder Translations

ladder in Danish is stige
ladder in Dutch is ladder
ladder in German is Leiter
ladder in Norwegian is leider, stige
ladder in Portuguese is escada
ladder in Spanish is escala, escalera de mano
ladder in Swedish is stege

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