Stumbling Quotes

181 quotes by 167 authors

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis. — Sandra Bullock
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I… — Eric Clapton
Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned… — John C. Maxwell
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on… — W.C. Fields
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. — Scott Peterson
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling… — Emma Goldman
I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to… — Russell Simmons
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have… — Rajneesh
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk.… — Lord Byron
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard
The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. — Charles Ghigna
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the… — Thomas Merton
I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. — Charles Kettering
So instead of the Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now 0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if… — Tony Kornheiser
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln

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