Stumbling Quotes

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

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 to block progress.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.

In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block

When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!

Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block

Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.