Top 1200 Ladder Of Success Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.

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

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.

People can't ignore that Hispanics represent the fastest-growing demographic in the US. The future success of America is intricately tied to the future success of the Hispanic community. And it's the women of these communities - the mothers, sisters, daughters - who make the world go around. I decided to focus on giving them opportunities so that they're set up for success in life.

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

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

'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

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

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

If we create enough new companies, there will be additional opportunities for people at every rung of the educational ladder.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

To me, success has already happened. I get to make records and live doing that. Success is that.

What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

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.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

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

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

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

Ever see a guy with cerebral palsy run through a speed ladder? I mean, that is funny.

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.

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

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

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

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

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

You think if you make it to the NFL, it's a success. You make it there, but quickly you say, 'I want to be a starter,' and that becomes success. Then it's, 'I want to win a Super Bowl,' and that becomes a success.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

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

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

I don't know how well it can go when you get thrown off a 20-foot ladder.

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

For a coach to believe in you is key. Not only for the success of the player, but mainly for the success of the team.

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.