A Quote by Robert Plant

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Robert Plant

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Past Stepping Stepping Stone Stone

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Robert Plant
British - Musician
Born: August 20, 1948

People would be like, 'Oh, 'Saturday Night Live' is such a stepping stone!' And I remember being like, 'A stepping stone?! This is my everything! I could just stop right here! This is the pinnacle!'

Molly Shannon

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

Steve Kornacki

So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.

Gail Fine

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

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Arianna Huffington

I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.

Jason Aaron

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.