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
Controversy Stepping Stones quotations
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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.
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
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.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
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...
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.
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.
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
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.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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.
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.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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.
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.
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.
...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.