Stepping Stone Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old stepping stone quotes, stepping stone sayings, and stepping stone proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. Alan Cohen
Scorn is your second stepping stone to success; first is failure. Junaid e Mustafa
No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success. Lailah Gifty Akita
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block. Shawn Achor
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone. L.R. Knost
Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude. Bruce Lee
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
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
Empathy is the stepping stone to respect. Vusi JCK Maseko
A mistake is a stepping stone to success. John C. Maxwell
Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings. Thomas Kinkade
It is better to be a stepping stone than a stumbling block. Mark Samraj
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. Elbert Hubbard
Success is not the final destination but the stepping stone for the next. Debasish Mridha
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely. Mira Nair
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. Roger Von Oech
There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. Idara Victor
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. Leon Brown
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
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. Tony Jaa
Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible. Mary Kay Ash
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
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
The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will. Yara Greathouse
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
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. Cullen Hightower
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God. James Robison
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