Top 100 Stepping Stone Quotes
#1. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#3. Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.
Dan Miller
#5. I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.
Rob Corddry
#6. 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
#7. The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
Stephen J. Field
#8. I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.
Tyra Banks
#9. Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Tony Jaa
#10. The power of habits is the stepping stone on the stairs of life.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.
Honore De Balzac
#13. 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
#14. The entrepreneur must structure the challenges and milestones for each stepping-stone in order to provide the proof required by the likely investor in the subsequent stage. In
Dermot Berkery
#15. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die.
Anne Lamott
#16. 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
#17. Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#18. Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.
Stacy Keibler
#20. Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#21. Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.
Louise Hay
#22. Self-knowledge is the stepping stone to self-mastery. Step
Robin S. Sharma
#23. Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#24. People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.
Todd Barry
#25. Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.
Cardale Jones
#26. 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
#27. School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.
Eli Broad
#28. Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
Ameen Rihani
#29. 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
#30. The stream of life is black and angry; how so many of us get across without drowning, I often wonder. The best way is not to look too far before-just from one stepping-stone to another; and though you may wet your feet, He won't let you drown-He has not allowed me.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#31. If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Eli Siegel
#32. A lot of people mock fandom and fan fiction, like it's lazy to base your own creativity and passion on someone else's work. But some of us need a stepping-stone to start. What's wrong with finding joy in making something, regardless of the inspiration?
Felicia Day
#33. A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.
Gabriel Iglesias
#34. I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don't want people to think it's just a stepping stone in my career. A lot of actors go that route as a way of building their careers. I don't want it to be seen as that.
Evan Ross
#35. Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.
Zig Ziglar
#36. Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!
Kent Hovind
#37. Let your pain birth your purpose. Let your mess become your message. Let this be a stepping-stone and not a stumbling block. Change
Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
#38. Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
Bill Burr
#39. It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
Clarence John Laughlin
#42. Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.
Arianna Huffington
#43. I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
Charlie Trotter
#44. A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Cullen Hightower
#45. If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!
Shawn Michaels
#46. One should never fear sorrow because it is the stepping stone to happiness," - Rig Veda
Bharadwaj
#47. I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.
Peter Hammill
#48. MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow ... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got to overcome in that moment is not something you're ever going to gain in a daily lifetime routine.
Enson Inoue
#49. When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.
Brooke Burns
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?
Richie Norton
#53. It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.
Peter Dinklage
#54. Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.
Karen Marie Moning
#55. See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.
Eileen Caddy
#56. You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea.
Sara Secora
#57. With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.
Jack Canfield
#58. 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
#59. Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.
Mark Batterson
#60. 'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing people through that and learn a lot of great things. But afterward - that's what I tell a lot of people - it's up to you to represent it as an artist.
Phillip Phillips
#61. 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.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
#62. Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. 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
#64. I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career ... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
Cara Delevingne
#65. And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.
Ashton Kutcher
#66. 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
#67. Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
Alan Cohen
#68. A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss
Sunday Adelaja
#69. 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
#70. Being Governor of a state is generally considered a prelude or stepping stone to a U.S. Senate seat. Not so in Alabama. The governor's office has always seemed to be the ultimate brass ring
Steve Flowers
#71. God uses our deepest pain as the first stepping stone to our greatest reward.
Scott Hildreth
#72. Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
Muhammad Ali
#73. Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
#74. Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. 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
#76. I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry
#77. Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
Graham Russell
#78. When I first started YouTubeing, the idea was, 'Oh, YouTube is going to be a stepping stone to get to other places,' and I just totally don't agree with that. I think YouTube is amazing. The digital space is amazing.
Lilly Singh
#79. The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
Robert Plant
#80. The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.
John Patrick Hickey
#81. A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
Helen Keller
#82. Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.
Arianna Huffington
#83. The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.
John Polson
#84. Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso
#85. Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.
Elizabeth George
#86. "American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.
Diana DeGarmo
#87. We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.
Cherie Piper
#88. What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.
Steve Irwin
#89. If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Roger Von Oech
#90. If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.
Timothy Dalton
#91. Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.
Sang H. Kim
#92. Trusting the resolve in my heart is but a stepping stone to the future I now see clearly.
S.K. Logsdon
#93. 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
#94. Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
Laila Robins
#96. Imagination is the stepping-stone for the new exciting creations.
Debasish Mridha
#97. PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
Bea Arthur
#98. Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith
#99. Therefore, the person living the inner life never condemns and does not criticize the objects of another, however small or ridiculous they may appear, for he knows that every object in the life of a person is but a stepping stone which leads him forward if he only wishes to go forward.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#100. never allow a man to devour your growth in order for you to remain two levels beneath him. You weren't created to be a stepping stone. You weren't created to be a punching bag. That's not something you should accept as the definition of love.
Ja'nai Ivory
