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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
Sep 11, 2025
I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.
Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.
I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
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.
No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
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.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?
Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.
You cannot be successful without failure.
If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.
It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.
The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.
It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
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.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.