Stepping-stones Quotes

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

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.

The general impression of course is that you would be most foolish to take the Vice Presidency .... if I were a candidate for the Presidency, I would take the Vice Presidency in a minute at this juncture. My belief in your taking it arises from my conviction that it is the true stepping-stone for you .... The Vice Presidency is the better path to better and more important things.

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

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

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

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

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.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

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