Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any… — Pericles Copy Share Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think… — Joey Harrington Copy Share Image
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they… — Steven Sample Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Life is a circle of traps/holes, stumbling blocks, so you'll fall over and over again but it doesn't matter if how may… — Masizole Sukwana Copy Share Image
“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the… — Nicole Haislett Copy Share Image
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Make stepping stones out of the stumbling blocks that are in your life path, by paying attention and noticing the doors that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda… — Carman Copy Share Image
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The agony or pain we fail to endure that lingers as tears in our eyes; or that lingers as heartache in our… — Nkululeko Goqo Copy Share Image
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
