“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Commencement Speech at University of Southern California http://graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0067-schwarzenegger.htm (May 2009). <br class="br">2000s
“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“Your son’s heroes didn’t climb traditional ladders—they built their own.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 53
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 101
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Forever Young
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Sextette (1978)
Source: [Quote Investigator: Exploring the Origin of Quotes, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/20/glad-to-see/]
Source: [The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA625]
“Roger can climb out of a pocket aeroplane and give a glib remark, I can't”
Timothy Dalton (1944) British actor of stage, film and television
On the difference between his and Roger Moore’s portrayal of Bond. [Several Interviews with Timothy Dalton on his 007 portrayal, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, 2000-03-04].
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