The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.
I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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