Top 261 Stumbling Quotes & Sayings

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

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

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 called virtue will automatically flow from your being, from your actions. But they have been doing just vice versa: first change the acts... It is as if you are in a dark house, and you are stumbling over furniture and over things, and you are told that unless you stop stumbling, light is not possible.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

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

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

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

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

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

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

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

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

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Stumbling is not falling.

Any opponent can be a stumbling block.

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

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

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

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

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

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

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

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

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

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

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

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Stumbling isn't falling.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

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

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

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

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

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

There is more to a fall than just flopping or stumbling. You can get hurt unless you know what you're doing.