J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole."
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Ladders
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Climb the ladder to success escalator style"
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself."
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"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask."
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"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."
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"Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall."
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"Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow."
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"May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young."
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"Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself"
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"There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall."
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"Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building."
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"The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder."
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"Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall."
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"The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite."
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"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
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"Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders."
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"There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade.""
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"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless."
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"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon."
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"The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height."
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"The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world."
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"From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape."
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"In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails."
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