Stumbling Quotes

• 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.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Stumbling is not falling.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Design, Challenges

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

  Jack Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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

  Scott Peterson

  Block, Choices, Stones

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• There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Block, Rocks, Words Of Wisdom

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

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Block, Blessing

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 31, 2015

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• 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.

  Elana Meyers

  Block, Opportunity, Views

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Bible, Block, Biblical

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• When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

  Ken Kesey

  Powerful, Ghouls, Firsts

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• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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

  Charles Kettering

  Commitment, Persistence, Sitting Down

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

  Bo Lozoff

  Light, Grace, Degrees

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• I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love, God, Faith

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• Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Attitude, Block, Stones

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• If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Knows, Ifs

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.229, Vintage

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• 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 the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Block, Order

  Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1963, p. 81

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• You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hurt, Home, Color

  Samuel R. Delany (1969). “Babel-17”, Macmillan Reference USA

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

  Cullen Hightower

  Block, Stones, Over It

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Block, Artist

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• 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 keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.

  Russell Simmons

  Military, Eye, People

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.106, Penguin

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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