Stepping Quotes

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

Time, Failure, Mistakes

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

Success, Failure, Two

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Act, Heaven, Toward

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

Success, Best, Ladder

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!
Billy Ray Cyrus

God, Beautiful, Saying

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley

Path, Face, Lies

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
River Phoenix

Success, Mind, Reason

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
Michel Gondry

Culture, Space, System

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.
Marsha Sinetar

Life, Values, Obstacles

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
Masaru Ibuka

Experience, Creativity, Looking

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.
Tyra Banks

Seen, Modeling, Stone

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
Robert Plant

Yourself, Point, Golden

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
Robert Plant

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Everything, Might

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate Blanchett

Education, Work, Done

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.
Josh Radnor

Time, Cool, Trying

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
Iain Duncan Smith

Money, Kids, Meant

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith

Life, Success, Work

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
Robert Duvall

Positive, Individual, Journey

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
Carlos Ghosn

Down, Talking, Five

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry

Rock, Nothing, Career

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
Beth Ditto

Teen, Trying, Before

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Norma Shearer

Made, Impossible, Inevitable

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.
Craig Ferguson

Job, Else, Show

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Success, Minds, Failures

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin

Car, Wife, Times

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult

Life, Family, Crisis

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.
Anna Deavere Smith

Talk, American, Able

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
Ben Kingsley

Another, Off, Both

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.
Tippi Hedren

Career, Modeling, Stones

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