Stumble Quotes
304 Stumble quotes by 256 unique authors
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
— Anais Nin
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You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.
— Ron Paul
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
— William Shakespeare
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
— Gertrude Stein
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To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
— William Arthur Ward
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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
— Howard Rheingold
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
— Joseph Campbell
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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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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…
— Homer
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If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as…
— T.H. White
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along,…
— Alice Walker
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The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I…
— John Green
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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to…
— Franz Kafka
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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
— Louis Sachar
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Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and…
— Eugene O'Neill
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But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on…
— Marcel Proust
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Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
— William Shakespeare
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any…
— Yann Martel
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
— Aaron Sorkin
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Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a…
— Jostein Gaarder
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when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't…
— Hillary Clinton
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We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
— William Arthur Ward
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I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a…
— Anne Frank
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If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask…
— Yann Martel
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I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know…
— George Harrison
Who Wrote These Stumble Quotes
256 authors contributed a total of 304 Stumble Quotes, led by these top contributors: