Top 1200 Ladder Of Success Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

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

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

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

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good

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

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

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

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

A woman who wants to go places needs to bring her own ladder.

In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

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

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

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

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

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

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

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

I come from the bottom of the social ladder and now I have a good life.

With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.

As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.

There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

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

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

There was one time I wrestled Eddie Guerrero in a ladder match for the custody of my son.

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

It is amazing that, whenever a ladder match is announced, people automatically think of the Hardys.

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. To be one with the whole is the real success. And when that success is achieved, then you really enjoy that growth - that growth of your awareness which makes you one with the whole. That is what you have to know, is to become your whole. You are just a fragment, a segment, a cell. You have to become the whole and that can be done only through this connection.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.

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

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

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

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

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given by a man who was crucified. He summed it all up when he said, "Love one another." One does not really need to fight for success. One can love one's way to success.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.