Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.