Stepping Stones Quotes

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  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

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• 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

  Block, Rocks, Words Of Wisdom

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• One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

  Jack Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

  Mira Nair

  Stones, Treats

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• 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

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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

  Scott Peterson

  Block, Choices, Stones

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• 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

  Progress, Stones, Path

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• 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

  Disappointment, Rocks, Use

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• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

  Ian Gardner

  Failure, Achievement, Stones

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Heaven, Charity

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• 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

  Marriage, Literature, Stones

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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• Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Stones

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• Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

  Stacy Keibler

  Stones, Has Beens

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Self, May

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• I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Self, May

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 1

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

  Denis Waitley

  Stars, Goal, Achievement

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• The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

  Robert Plant

  Past, Stones

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• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

  Seamus Heaney

  Stones, Oneself

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Phones, Numbers, People

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• 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

  Giving Up, Kindness, Fighting

  "A Message From The Late Bea Arthur" by Bea Arthur, www.peta.org.

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, War, Political

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