Ladder Metaphor Quotes

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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.

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

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

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

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.

The world is like a ladder: some go up and some go down.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

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

I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.