Stumble Quotes

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

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.

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

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.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

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.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.