#ladder

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. ↗

— Paul Graham

#corporate #ladder #most #obsolete #people

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

— Saint Augustine

#make #our #ourselves #out #themselves

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#make #our #ourselves #same #those

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#house #i #know #ladders #leave

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human thought #ladder #mathematician #reached

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#age #bladder #i #me #need

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#ladder #mount #other #virtues #which

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#am #another #been #clothing #handkerchief

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#decline #heaven #i #invitation #ladder

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group. ↗

— Jim McKay

#also #background #bottom #class #class background