What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on. — Mother Teresa
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
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built. — Henry Allen Ironside
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. — Marilyn French
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. — H. Emilie Cady
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
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward
You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone. — Indian Proverbs
There are no roadblocks, only springboards. — Brent Smith
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills. — Confucius
By your stumbling, the world is perfected. — Sri Aurobindo
Short Stumbling Blocks Quotes
There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them. — DJ Khaled
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk. — Gene Simmons
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones. — Sachin Tendulkar
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. — Joseph Campbell
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. — Marcus Aurelius
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. — Beatrice Wood
Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. — Roy T. Bennett
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy — Goldie Hawn
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Stumbling Blocks Image Quotes
If you stumble, make it part of the dance.
Stumbling Quotes
Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.
The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. — John Locke
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith. — Johnny Cash
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda
Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.
They say if you fall, someone who loves you will lend a hand for you, I have 8 pairs of hands always ready to hold me back up when I stumble — Jessica Jung
We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized. — Kendrick Lamar
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama. — Sonia Sanchez
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. — Gloria Gaither
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
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates. — Stephen Jay Gould
You don't want to block the pain too much. Without the pain what we would talk about.
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks. — Benjamin Zander
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. — Pericles
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. — Jonathan Swift
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God. — Henri Nouwen
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college. — Danica McKellar
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block. — Jacques Maritain
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. — Paul Gauguin
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. — Orison Swett Marden
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block. — Shawn Achor
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. — Mahalia Jackson
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. — Henry Ward Beecher
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness. — Susan Lucci
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us. — Madeleine L'Engle
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them — Unknown
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. — Robert Guillaume
Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths — Robin Sharma
The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through. — Chandra Wilson
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard
Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance. — John C. Maxwell
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith. — W. H. Auden
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. — Scott Peterson
Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success. — Brian Tracy
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance. — Amy Waldman
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
Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts. — Dwight L. Moody
View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome. — Elana Meyers
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. — Thomas Steven Molnar
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration. — Edgar Allan Poe
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. — Ezra Taft Benson
For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel. — John Vockler
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends. — Ezra Taft Benson
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced. — Napoleon Hill
See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way. — Bible
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition. — Arthur Desmond
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