Stepping Stones Quotes - Page 3

• Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you.

  Seamus Heaney

  Book, Feet, Ice

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• 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

  Mother, Opposites, Stones

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Smart, Yoga

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• 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.

  Memorable, Hands, Needs

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

  Robin Sharma

  Block, Giving, Stones

  Robin Sharma (2005). “Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.25, Jaico Publishing House

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• Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Stones

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• Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Stones, Failing

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. 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. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Fun, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.

  C.S. Friedman

  Effort, Enemy, Defense

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin

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• 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

  Games, Actors, World

  "Rob Corddry walks us through Childrens Hospital's third season". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 26, 2011.

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• MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

  Enson Inoue

  Men, Mma, Stones

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• If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!

  Shawn Michaels

  Wwe, Use, Stones

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• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

  Shawn Achor

  Block, Adversity, Successful

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• 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

  Success, Journey, Views

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Grateful, Achievement, Trying

  Horace Silver (2007). “Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver”, p.175, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Marriage, Spiritual, Unions

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• 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

  Stones, Way, Used

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• 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

  Stress, Men, Mma

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• Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment. Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing. Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Healing, Judging

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

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• 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

  Dream, Determination, Block

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• Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of his false prophet on the whole world

  Pope Pius II

  Christian, Law, Cities

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

  Honore de Balzac

  Christian, Men, Events

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• Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!

  Kent Hovind

  Order, World, Stones

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• 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

  Speaks Out, Opposites, Goal

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