Climbing Up The Ladder Quotes:

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wall, Hard Work, Climbing, Climbing The Ladder, Climbing Up The Ladder

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

- Donny Osmond

topic: Inspirational, Success, Thinking, Climbing The Ladder, Climbing Up The Ladder

One only gets to the top rung on 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

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Climbing Up, Climbing Up The Ladder

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

- Michael Bassey

topic: Dream, Distance, Climbing, Lock Up, Climbing The Ladder

As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

- Jose Mujica

topic: Kings, Powerful, Past, Like Something, Climbing Up

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

topic: Jesus, Past, Climbing, Climbing Up, Climbing Up The Ladder

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

source: "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

topic: Kids, Thinking, Impact, Climbing Up, Climbing Up The Ladder

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

- John Ortberg

topic: Jesus, Past, Climbing Up, Demotion, Climbing Up The Ladder

Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Piano, Numbers, Fridges, Climbing Up