Top 1200 Climbing Up The Ladder Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

The perception is that I've always made winning look easy. People think it's easy, but they don't see what's behind it, the time away from the family. The days spent climbing, training out in all weather, climbing but trying to keep the speed for the sprint.

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.

It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not receiving feedback on your performance.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.

We grew up climbing trees, playing outdoors and cycling.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

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

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

I grew up rock climbing.

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder, at our expense.

I wanted a challenge, wanted to be self-sufficient, so I thought, 'Go and join the army,' at a young age, and I just happened to be good at what I done and went up the ladder and went up to the top.

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

In a general sense, I think it's bad to bring too much money into climbing, since it takes away a little from the beauty of the mountains. But at the same time, I can't blame the Nepali government - or the Indian, Pakistani or Chinese, depending on where you're climbing - from wanting to capitalize on foreign climbers.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can’t see where you’ve come from or where you’re going.

Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.

There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step - but not leaving the ladder. All others are required.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.

that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.

I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.

In climbing, a fundamental thing is to want to do something you've never done before. That's the beauty of climbing, whether you're a girl or boy, seasoned veteran or beginner. You're not sure you'll be able to do this, but you try, and discovering you are capable is an amazing experience and an amazing feeling.

I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.

I don't think kids climbing up the leg of someone is a big deal.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.