Quotes & Sayings About Stepping Stones

Think about a person who typically sees things differently than you do. Consider ways in which those differences might be used as stepping-stones to third alternative solutions. Perhaps you could seek out his or her views on a current project or problem, valuing the different views you are likely to hear. — Stephen R. Covey

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. — Leon Brown

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone. — Eileen Caddy

The history of China's "land reform" was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million poor Chinese farmers were victims too. They gave the Communist Party their popular support, hoping to improve their living standards by taking property away from landowners. Instead, they became stepping stones for the Party to abolish private property rights once and for all. — Helen Raleigh

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail. — Kylie Bax

Questions are the stepping stones to wisdom, — Sabrina Flynn

The nearest arched window poured its soft light over him, allowing me to see
every inch. Dressed smartly in black loafers and slacks, he wore a thigh-length, black
coat. He'd brushed his golden hair back, tucked behind his ears, and his cheeks looked
flushed, no doubt due to the bitter, evening air.
He looks like an angel in the winter snow. The thought made me growl in irritation.
"Hello, Magpie."
I couldn't move. "Adrian. — Elizabeth Morgan

I stumbled away. I pressed the back of my hand to my mouth and just looked at
him. "What was that?"
His chest rose and fell heavily. "A kiss."
"Why?"
"Why?" He laughed. His blue eyes suddenly looked so sad. "Because I've wanted to do that for twenty years. — Elizabeth Morgan

God doesn't promise to remove the stones from the path, but He does promise to make them stepping-stones and not stumbling blocks. He promises to help us climb higher because of the difficulties of life. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future. — Gordon B. Hinckley

So, before you are tempted to give up or get
discouraged, remember all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones that lead to great opportunities in the future. — Jim Rohn

My family stood right in front of me, talking and smiling. I felt like I was viewing one of those cheesy ad shots for camera companies. The ones I looked at and thought, fake, because no one's family ever looked that happy. Yet, the perfect family moment bloomed right before my eyes, and I wasn't a part of it. — Elizabeth Morgan

understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones — Jean Sasson

The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them. — Nikki Rowe

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped. — Louise Hay

The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them. — Mary Kay Ash

Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely! — Kent Hovind

Setbacks are stepping stones to something better. — Cash Peters

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. — Seamus Heaney

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey

All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from. — Marlo Morgan

Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work ... — Max Muller

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat. — Ron Holland

Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same. — Daniel Black

In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us. — Dennis Merritt Jones

You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair — Rohinton Mistry

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 to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and — Stephen Johnson Field

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

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success. — Walter Russell

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement — Denis Waitley

If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things. — Roz Savage

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success. — Winston Churchill

Centered, open, and diverse, the universes correspondence to your hopes and dreams is the deliverance of your foremost thoughts and actions. Energetically you can create and destroy your immediate set of circumstances under the same laws. Posed as friends and foes, you will have obstacles, ones in which you must go through, over, under and aside sometimes to overcome. These are the stepping stones to your future reality. Overcome that which has weakened your state of mind and conquer the thoughts and actions that you have let lead your life. — Will Barnes

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God. — James Robison

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

Setbacks are just stepping stones to great things. — Teresa Collins

Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust — Paul Babicki

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. — Napoleon Hill

Football has always been a stepping stone for my education. — Cardale Jones

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. — Eli Siegel

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper "One more time" in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. — L.R. Knost

If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. - Drizzt Do'Urden — R.A. Salvatore

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

That to be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and best of all I had learnt to laugh. — Robyn Davidson

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. — Susan L. Taylor

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things. — Grenville Kleiser

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones. — Ian Gardner

She knew the way of things. She knew if
you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole
world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.
Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard
beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and
wine. . . . — Patrick Rothfuss

In every failure is the seed of success ...
Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right. — Deepak Chopra

To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and — Robyn Davidson

Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. — John C. Maxwell

There are no mistakes in life, only stepping stones to the path you were meant to be on! — Heather Schwartz

Soon all of this shite-hole will know I am the Greatest Swordsman in the world. You, my friend, will sadly not live to see that day. Such is the fate of stepping-stones. — Michael R. Fletcher

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world. — Ben Parr

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer. — Karin Slaughter

Make their hate your stepping stones towards achieving something greater. This will be the best revenge you can give - by proving to people that they are wrong about you, and that you are better than they could ever imagine. — Auliq Ice

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success. — Susan Choi

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand — Joni Mitchell

At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever I
stood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman. — Elizabeth Morgan

I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, — Robyn Davidson

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth. — Helen Keller

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success. — Dan Miller

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths — Robin Sharma

Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. — Anodea Judith

Dreams were the stepping stones to glory.
By pursuing them, he had attained a level of success that exceeded most men's reach and acquired all that he had set out to gain: Land, cattle, and wealth beyond his highest expectations.
Yet, desperation gnawed at him like a starving dog that had just discovered a buried bone, and as he gazed at the stars that blanketed the velvety sky, he felt as though he had achieved nothing. — Lorraine Heath

Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness. — James Stalker

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones. — Neale Donald Walsch

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. — Henry David Thoreau

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self. — Deepak Chopra

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

She hadn't planned on having another beer, but then ... when did she ever plan to drink another one? They usually just followed one after the other like stepping stones set into a stream, and she hopped along them one at a time until she lost her balance and fell into the drink. — Megan Hart

She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones. — Patrick Rothfuss

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. — Jim Rohn

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

Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don't ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living. — Toni Sorenson

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. — Orison Swett Marden

No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you! — Israelmore Ayivor

Failure is a stepping stone to success. — Arianna Huffington

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them. — Anonymous

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. — Alan Cohen

What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm not so sure, You'll have to read differently then, How, The same method doesn't work for everyone, each person has to invent his or her own, whichever suits them best, 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, Unless, Unless what, Unless those rivers don't have just two shores but many, unless each reader is his or her own shore, and that shore is the only shore worth reaching. — Jose Saramago

The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty. — Robert Trivers

Don't be afraid to make mistakes; they are just the stepping-stones to success. — Louis Zamperini

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. — Brian Cox

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. — Amber Frey

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy. — Plato

Life has ups and downs, provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.Keep moving towards your goal.Great days ahead. — Osunsakin Adewale

As she walked through the dark, stepping softly through the wet stones, she looked ahead to where the first cautious star managed to blink through the clouds (361). — Caragh M. O'Brien

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. — Marsha Sinetar

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones. — J.G. Ballard

Sometimes what we see as wasted time is actually the training ground for what God has in store for us. The lessons we learn and the obstacles we overcome are preparation. Even the rocks you're struggling to climb over today may be the stepping-stones of tomorrow. God never wastes anything. There is great value in where he has led you. And even if you have strayed from his path at times, he's a Redeemer who can transform those mistakes into future benefits to you as well. — Holley Gerth

Don't limit yourself by what you've achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come. — LaShawnda Jones

If we can practice opening to the crises in our personal lives as teaching moments, as evolutionary stepping stones, we will be far better prepared emotionally and spiritually for the trauma that collapse will foist on us and everyone around us. — Carolyn Baker

He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the dead — Catherine Anderson