Top 100 Stumble Quotes
#1. A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
Brandon Sanderson
#2. The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
Mike Leigh
#3. No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.
Jeannine Atkins
#5. Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision
E. E. Cummings
#6. The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.
Edward Abbey
#7. Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each one tumbled into the other like the drumroll of dominoes crashing together. Funny how time stands still when death is imminent.
Darynda Jones
#8. You've got choices, like any other creature. You can stumble down that road, pretending you can't help it. You can curl up and die of regret and sorrow for what you've done. Or you can get up and fight, even though the battle might be lost.-Finn
Kersten Hamilton
#9. Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.
Paula Rinehart
#10. In order to move forward, you will have to stumble along the way, but every falter in your stride just makes your next step even stronger.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#11. I'll stumble through all the words, knowing I couldn't begin to tell her what I'm feeling. There're no words for that.
Maria Rachel Hooley
#12. I will not go back. I may stumble, but I will not fall.
Aimee L. Salter
#13. It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
Casey Robinson
#14. I would have you learn this great fact: that a life of doing right is the wisest life there is. 12 If you live that kind of life, you'll not limp or stumble as you run. 13 Carry out my instructions; don't forget them, for they will lead you to real living.
Anonymous
#15. As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.
C. JoyBell C.
#16. Hate is never a far cry from love ... Sometimes I stumble the lines drunken.. Hollering your name..
Shanica Stewart
#17. A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.
Morgan Freeman
#18. Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
Bill Dedman
#19. On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
Felicity Huffman
#20. it's like the land that time forgot. Or more like a place that's holding its breath, hoping time won't stumble upon it. Down
Haruki Murakami
#21. How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one's own uniqueness in the matter!
Muriel Barbery
#22. During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
Winston S. Churchill
#23. Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze.
Sue Grafton
#25. Most of the time the road is not clear ahead. We have roadblocks and obstacles and stumble because of them. Are you courageous enough to map your way around them and continue on?
Tony Curl
#26. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
#27. In life we stumble across a lot of things and people who we believe are irreplaceable. But nothing really is irreplaceable until we ensure so. It's all about what we really want.
Mansi Soni
#29. You might slip, you might slide You might stumble and fall by the roadside But don't you ever let nobody drag your spirit down Remember you're walking up to heaven, don't let nobody turn you around
Eric Bibb
#30. To me, true love is about finding someone who not only sees and accepts your demons but also is willing to step up and fight them when you stumble.
A.C. Gaughen
#31. Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing.
Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening
Karen Hawkins
#32. If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.
Arthur W. Pink
#33. You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.
Iyanla Vanzant
#34. Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold - where we trip is where the treasure lies.
Calvin Miller
#35. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.
Sarah Kane
#36. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That
Sabahattin Ali
#37. The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Walter Lippmann
#38. Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.
Dada Bhagwan
#39. That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.
Ruby Dee
#40. If you think there's a god, then there is, and if you don't, then there isn't. At least while we stumble around in the dark during our mortal life, that is. We'll find out the answer for sure when it's over, and if we don't, well, we'll never know that we didn't.
Anthony Bjorklund
#41. I was starting to think, maybe you need to feel your way more through life - just turn off the lights and follow your senses, even if you stumble once in a while. Maybe that's what falling in love is like. Just feeling your way through the darkness until you find something solid to hold on to.
Katie Kacvinsky
#42. We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!
Samuel R. Delany
#43. At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.
Bradley Whitford
#44. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
#45. Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
Lily Cole
#46. It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#47. Soulmates are a reward, not a certainty. I think you have to earn them. And I believe, if you're one of the bastards lucky enough to stumble across yours, that you have to fight for them with everything you have,
Julie Johnson
#48. Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
Enele Sopoaga
#49. The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.
Kristen Stewart
#50. You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have to do it again and again.
Kate Wicker
#51. Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.
Russ Feingold
#52. When you venture into the unknown stumble and fall, never give up hope for the lord is always with you.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#53. You'll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.
Ed Catmull
#54. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering
#55. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.
Jason Versey
#56. A girl can dream can't she? My new life plan is to stumble into every office of a CEO until I find a Christian Grey.
Sophie Monroe
#57. Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.
Danny Boyle
#59. Never be content to wear a cloak of religion. Be all that you profess. Though you may err, be real. Though you may stumble, be true. Keep this principle continually before your eyes, and it will be well with your soul throughout your journey from grace to glory.
J.C. Ryle
#60. Would I trade that in, give it away for the hunt? I stumble down the stairs of a subway. No. I couldn't trade it in again. Not now that I know what it is to be loved. Not now that I've stepped out of the cave and into the sun.
Jackson Pearce
#61. Maybe that's how it starts. You stumble upon something that helps you cope, fills a void. Makes you feel something different than what you currently feel. You know in the long run it probably won't be good for you, but you do it anyway. Tell yourself you can handle it.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#62. I stop and look back
All I see is black
I push the dark aside
And there you are
Holding my hand
Catching me when I stumble
Oh how do I get the dark to retreat?
And find my way back to you?
And who I was before
D.E. Haggerty
#63. This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity.
Eyden I.
#64. Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.
Graham Greene
#65. All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
Homer
#66. Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.
Ezra Taft Benson
#67. You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.
Bryan Brown
#68. Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.
Mike Quigley
#70. Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson
#71. It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
#72. For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
Kathleen Norris
#73. Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to stumble zombielike out into the night.
Bill Bryson
#74. Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points.
Pete Gill
#76. The dirigible came to rest as lightly as a butterfly on an egg, if the butterfly were to stumble a bit and list heavily to one side and the egg to take on the peculiar characteristics of Scotland in winter: more soggy and more gray than one would think possible.
Gail Carriger
#77. Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.
Alice Eve
#78. To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.
Alyssa Tillmon
#79. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*
Daniel H. Pink
#80. A man driven by rage may stumble, in his passion, onto truth.
Philip K. Dick
#81. People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble.
Dada Bhagwan
#82. Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie
#83. The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude ... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
Theodore Roosevelt
#84. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Winston S. Churchill
#85. Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
Oprah Winfrey
#86. Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you're lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.
Amy Thomas
#88. Through grace we are helped not to stumble and through grace we know that we are being welcomed. What more can we ask?
M. Scott Peck
#89. It might do me well to trip and fall,
to stumble blindly and to crawl,
for some reason ...
or none at all.
Shaun Hick
#90. He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
Ayn Rand
#91. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.
Milo
#92. Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.
James A. Michener
#93. The cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have to let them stumble, fall into walls and be mute, let them drift and be lost. If you hold the reins too tight, they won't spring to life.
Tina Howe
#94. Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#95. Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
James Burrows
#96. Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we're a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
#97. You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
Charles De Lint
#98. We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
Anthony Of Padua
#99. Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every heartache that made me stronger than I knew I could be.
Lisa Mischelle Wood
#100. We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.
Gregory David Roberts
