A Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw
Irish - Playwright
July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

Zig Ziglar

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalier

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Ayn Rand

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

Madeleine Albright

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Russell M. Nelson

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Sun Tzu

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

Natascha McElhone

I don't think any other hip-hop artist has achieved what I've achieved or the numbers I've sold without commercial radio. MTV and BET have never supported me.

Too Short

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

Mae West

Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max

James Patterson

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

John Burroughs

I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.

Harry Hill

I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.

Soni Razdan

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.