If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

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.

What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.

So spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written. It's the highest rung in the ladder, but it's also the wood out of which the entire ladder is made.

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

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.