Stepping-stone Quotes

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)
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. View quote
Cullen Hightower
Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else. View quote
Stacy Keibler
Even a modest Basic Income program could become a stepping-stone toward the most profound transformation of all: to unlatch work from livelihood entirely. View quote
David Graeber
The present assault on 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 constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. View quote
Stephen Johnson Field
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Another advantage of Lenin's derived from the fact that he did not care about Russia. He cared about Germany and England in the sense that, for him, as a revolutionary, they were the key countries. Russian he viewed as nothing more than a stepping-stone to global upheaval;... View quote
Richard Pipes
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. View quote
Laila Robins
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. View quote
Stephen J. Field
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)
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good ; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus. View quote
Felix Adler
Foolish and vain indeed is the workingman who makes the color of his skin the stepping-stone to his imaginary superiority. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Good legacies form a stepping-stone of future leadership and the foundation of development in the country. View quote
Peter Kenneth
The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal. View quote
Mary Baker Eddy
Foolish and vain indeed is the workingman who makes the color of his skin the stepping-stone to his imaginary superiority. The trouble is with his head, and if he can get that right he will find that what ails him is not superiority but inferiority, and that he, as well as the Negro he despises, is the victim of wage-slavery, which robs him of what he produces and keeps both him and the Negro tied down to the dead level of ignorance and degradation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs