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You can put me in a cage, on a ladder, in any kind of match, and I will persevere. I will find a way.
So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.
Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
If you get better educated, you might yourself higher up the ladder, but the ladder will still be there.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.
I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
I was one of the innovators of the TLC Match; some would arguably say that I am the master of the Ladder Match.
The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.
I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
If we create enough new companies, there will be additional opportunities for people at every rung of the educational ladder.
I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.
I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not receiving feedback on your performance.
You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
You might need a little more nuance in personal relationships. Climbing the work ladder is different from climbing the social ladder.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
As awkward as it is to manoeuvre a ladder around the squared circle, there is an incredible art to 'excellently executing' a ladder match.
In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.
Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
At times, my insecurities were real. How am I going to get back into the team? I felt like I was climbing a ladder that was never-ending at times.
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
I understand that people have aspirations, and everyone wants to play the lead role. But, I do believe that one must climb the ladder from the first step.
I always hoped I'd get a chance to prove myself at the top level because I believed I could do it, but making your way up the football ladder is very tough.
I've lined the field. I've washed the uniforms. I've washed my own equipment. Those Division I guys don't understand that. I've worked myself up the ladder.
You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child.
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade education from the south.
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.