One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. — Jack Penn
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. — Thomas Carlyle
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on. — Mother Teresa
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. — Eli Siegel
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard! — Shawn Michaels
Stone by stone, makes a wall, wall by wall makes a castle. — Albanian Proverbs
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. — Johnny Cash
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. — Anna Katharine Green
Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely! — Kent Hovind
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Another Stepping Stone Quotes
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. — Bryan Adams
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do. — Merle Shain
Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more. — Peace Pilgrim
Each new house is another experimental stepping stone toward the use of the sun as a fuel resource. — Maria Telkes
Stepping Stone Inspirational Quotes
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.' — Richard Rohr
Failures are simply stepping stones on your path to greatness. Embrace them as wonderful opportunities to learn, grow, and evolve. — Chatri Sityodtong
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the stepping stones to success.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. — Elbert Hubbard
The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. — Charles Ghigna
Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self. — Deepak Chopra
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it. — Jodi Picoult
Half Stepping Quotes
I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given. — Fred Rogers
In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue. — Wyndham Lewis
Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.' — Jon Stewart
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough...I missed a note there...I'm a half-step off on the turnaround." — Dick Latvala
The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery. — Allen Klein
Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not. — Sandra Steingraber
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience. — Winston Churchill
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step. — George Washington
Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing. — John Scofield
I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily. — Dwayne Johnson
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. — Johnny Cash
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. — Ramakrishna
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity. — H. P. Blavatsky
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better. — Enid Blyton
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. — Dale Carnegie
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. — Tatchakorn Yeerum
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. — Beatrix Potter
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone. — Cory Booker
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely. — Mira Nair
It’s okay to make mistakes; that’s how we learn and grow. Embrace failure as a stepping stone to success. — Edward Barber
Embrace failure as a stepping stone towards success. Learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward. — Steven Bartlett
What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things. — Joyce Meyer
Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they’ve hit their target, they’re already stalking their next conquest. — Tim Grover
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas C. Haliburton
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters... — Sayings
I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history. — Glenn Hughes
The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful. — Michael Josephson
Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude. — Bruce Lee
The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement. — Masaaki Imai
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone. — Igor Sikorsky
I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements. — Horace Silver
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone. — Richard Widmark
...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance. — Rohinton Mistry
Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself. — Chris Hadfield
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed. — Jaggi Vasudev
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. — Ernest Lawrence
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. — Gertrude Stein
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. — Robert Plant
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