Climbing the Ladder Quotes

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

The higher a monkey climb, the more he expose.

I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.

I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!

What you think is the summit is only a step up

I wanted to take the short road to the top, and I think I'm doing that.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

I have come up the hard way.

I'm a believer in starting from the bottom.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

You don't get anything easy when you come from a big band and you go and start another one. You learn real fast that, 'Wow! I went from the top of the mountain to all the way back to the bottom, and I've gotta start over.'

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

'300' was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I'm over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.

I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.