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May these quotes about Ladders inspire and motivate you.
In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted
in my having to climb down a thousand ladders
until I could reach out my hand
to the little clod of earth that I am.
- Carl Jung
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?
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder that supports me
as I ascend from Fear to Unconditional Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Surely God would not have created such a being as man,
with an ability to grasp the infinite,
to exist only for a day!
No, no, man was made for immortality.
- Abraham Lincoln
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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