“My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.” IfsInspirationalShouldTryingWould BeFatherLeftHurtBehindsProgressFeetKicksClimbsAgendasClimbingOne TimeLaddersLeft BehindHurt MeKicking Author:Steve Harvey
“Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.” SelfWholeRememberEffortStepsProgressSacrificeHigherAmbitionStandardsMarkPainfulDenialLengthLaddersSelf-denialHigher Standards Book:Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated Source: Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated
“The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.” WorldBelieveHumansHandsGamesUnderstandingGrowthHuman BeingsAnimalRaceProgressViolenceStageNeededMoralityGoodnessUltimateRefuseConvictionIntellectInvisibleDullDivinityMeaninglessBrutalLaddersMonstrousAscending Author:Stefan Zweig
“Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.” ShouldHas BeensEnoughHumanityFoundProgressSeaCallingGoldTreasureDustEngagedGood EnoughThrowingDiamondUnfairLaddersKickingGutters Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.” PeopleIfsWantShowsSpiritualStepsProgressExampleInspireRaisesPreachingThreateningLaddersIndicationDeductionsConspiringSpiritual Progress Author:Ameen Rihani
“We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.” WantBelieveHas BeensProgressSpecialEvolutionCosmosTapeAgain And AgainLaddersHomo SapiensPinnacleRewind Author:Michael Shermer
“Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.” MadeBigsCareersProgressFailingMiddlePositionMotherhoodEnormousConclusionExecutivesLeapSeniorLaddersRoadblock Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett
“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.” LittlesHandsEarthCasesProgressThousandClimbsReach OutHikingLaddersPilgrimPilgrims Progress Book:Letters Source: Letters