The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.
I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
Any opponent can be a stumbling block.
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.
I don't consider myself a rock star. I would rather be looked at as a regular guy who happened to be in the right time at the right place. But if you call me a rock star, thank you.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.