A Quote by Russell M. Nelson

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

Russell M. Nelson

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Russell M. Nelson
American - Priest
Born: September 9, 1924

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Thomas Merton

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

Henry Blackaby

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

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

Stephen Covey

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Dave Ramsey

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

Mae West

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Stephen Covey

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

Zig Ziglar

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Donald Rumsfeld

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

Arthur Honegger

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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