Top 78 Stumbles Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Love is something like the trust exercise. It's the scariest situation ever, but it's so simple. All you have to do is let go and fall backwards. Even if you fall into his hands and he stumbles, at least he caught you. He didn't let you fall because he'd rather fall first and protect you.
Nakiala Comeaux
#3. Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler
#4. When he stumbles in the trench / his hands cut into mud like dough. / Surrounded by puddles, rats, lice." -- The Baker Signed up, 1914
Alex Boyd
#5. When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
Richard Savage
#6. A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles
Agona Apell
#7. Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#8. All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.
Mikhail Naimy
#9. One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#10. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
Khalil Gibran
#11. With a squeak she flaps her bat shawl and runs. A burly rough pursues with booted strides. He stumbles on the steps, recovers, plunges into gloom. Weak squeaks of laughter are heard, weaker.)_ THE BAWD: _(Her wolfeyes shining)_
James Joyce
#12. Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror
and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing
and the night cold and the night long and the river
to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning
and blackness ahead
Robert Hayden
#14. She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.
Bob Dylan
#15. I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are out there that we sense are out there, but we don't have any proof. John's character stumbles into that situation.
Glen Morgan
#16. Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
William Tenn
#17. The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind;
He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
Eugene Fitch Ware
#18. There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.
Nicole Krauss
#19. A fool stumbles when he walks; the wise are not hampered even when they run.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.
Winston Churchill
#22. It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
Theodore Roosevelt
#23. If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path
Uthman Ibn Affan
#24. Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
Tom Mann
#25. He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Faith bears sweet fruit but with weak it stumbles in hard time.
Kishore Bansal
#27. Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.
Kevin Breel
#28. The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.
Todd Stocker
#29. The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
James Russell Lowell
#30. Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams - either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#31. Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That's been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.
Robert Dallek
#32. Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!
Michael Palin
#33. No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in her hand is the first woman, the only woman in the world. And he is the first man, he stumbles on love and he cant shake it,never,ever,ever..
Pia Pera
#34. A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.
Napoleon Hill
#35. But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
Virginia Woolf
#36. It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.
Holly Estil Cunningham
#37. He knows this by the way the girl stumbles, and it occurs to him for the first time that by taking her with him he'll be slowed down. He'll be hampered by her ability to see.
Margaret Atwood
#38. Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
Anonymous
#39. A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
[A horse stumbles that has four legs.]
George Herbert
#40. Here is the rule of thumb: if you aren't giving anything up, it isn't moral and it isn't courage. Stumbles, sacrifices, inner struggle, false starts and wrong turns, conflict with parents and peers-these are some of the signs of the genuine article The way you know it's real is if it hurts.
William Deresiewicz
#41. Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#42. Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.
Mary Roach
#44. In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame.
Shannon Hale
#45. Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim and the blind.
George Martin
#46. He's cu-ute." Bree LaRue stumbles sideways, shielding her eyes with one hand. "Aww, look at his hair. And the chin! He's like Laurence Olivier, and a cockatoo. Like if they had a baby?
J.C. Lillis
#47. God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.
Criss Jami
#48. He has to find his own way home. Faith is a journey. It doesn't have a stop and start date. It grows with time. Sometimes it falters and stumbles, but every misstep can be used to shape us."~Asher Powell
Tammy L. Gray
#49. Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.
Thomas S. Monson
#50. If God is dead, Nietzsche is perhaps the person who stumbles across the corpse; nevertheless, it is Kant whose fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
Will Buckingham
#52. that is the rub of being a parent. You have infinite capacity to forgive, and infinite capacity to grieve every time your child stumbles." "I
Molly Jameson
#53. And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
#54. She screws up - a lot. She stumbles and she falls. She gets it wrong as often as she gets it right. But she never gives up the fight.
Mandy Hale
#55. When someone in privileged circumstances gets a bit bewildered or stymied or maybe stumbles, the light he sees things in will change. But seeing things in a different light doesn't mean he's changed his vantage point.
Soseki Natsume
#56. For though to let loose the bridle to lusts, while our opinions are against such things, is bad; yet, to sin, and plead a toleration so to do, is worse. The one stumbles beholders accidentally, the other pleads them into the snare.
Bunyan, John
#57. He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
#58. "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"
Jack Welch
#59. Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
#60. The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other, painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert.
Virginia Woolf
#61. He that stumbles, and does not quite fall, gains a step.
Gretchen Rubin
#62. If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
C.S. Lewis
#63. Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you - and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.
Courtney Milan
#64. If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
George Washington
#65. Remember that every man at times stumbles and must be helped up: if he's down, you cannot carry him. The only way in which any man can be helped permanently is to help himself." - Theodore Roosevelt
Zig Ziglar
#66. Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.
Michel Houellebecq
#67. I learned that everyone and every situation is more than it appears to be on the surface, and that if one is quiet, and looks for the "more," one sometimes stumbles upon magic.
Anonymous
#68. The R-Directed aptitudes so often disdained and dismissed - artistry, empathy, taking the long view, pursuing the transcendent - will increasingly determine who soars and who stumbles. It's a dizzying - but ultimately inspiring - change.
Daniel H. Pink
#69. Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition
Amby Burfoot
#70. Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Swami Vivekananda
#71. Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened. - SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Gary S. Bobroff
#72. People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.
Tim Tebow
#73. Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
John Battelle
#74. Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.
Winston S. Churchill
#75. Back to sleep, my babies," she said in a soothing voice. "Pa just went to the privy. I'm only taking him a light to see his way back. You know how your pa stumbles his toes in the night and then curses us for it. Back to sleep, the both of you. Everything is all right. Just takin' your pa a lamp.
Terry Goodkind
#76. He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#77. The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.
Gene Luen Yang
#78. It is particularly in contacts with people of the same sex that one stumbles over both one's own shadow and those of other people. Although we do see the shadow in a person of the opposite sex, we are usually much less annoyed by it and can more easily pardon it.
C. G. Jung
