#ladder

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man ↗

#boss #business-advice #career-ladder #fortune #wealth

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#endeavors #greed #humanity #ladder #learning

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #love #stella #this-hunger #love

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#another #could #first #how #indeed

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#i #know #ladder #more #moved

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#ascended #away #believe #i #kicking

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

#ladder #man #playing #poet #puts

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#merely #mistakes #steps #up

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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#enough #foot #higher #him #hold

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗