Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on.

Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.