Quotes of Rung - somelinesforyou

“ An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done. ”

- James Montgomery

“ There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. ”

- Unknown

“ His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ 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. ”

- Thomas Henry Huxley

“ 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. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ 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. ”

- Thomas Huxley

“ If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. ”

- Donny Osmond

“ Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized. ”

- Martin Buber

“ In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace. ”

- Morihei Ueshiba

“ Enlightenment is a sublime word, if one goes back to its meaning; itmeans illumination of the spirit through truth, liberation from theshadows of error, or uncertainty, of doubt. Enlightenment is, in itsdeepest meaning, the transfiguration of reason. ”

- Paul Leopold Haffner
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