At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.
I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?
Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?
Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real 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?
The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
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.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it. ) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.
That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.