#stumble

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#redemption #stumble #respect

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

— Winston Churchill

#himself #man #most #occasionally #over

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

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #most #nothing #occasionally

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#steady #step #stumble #thou #thy

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. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#gall #incomes #large #like #our

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#class #defies #make #mind #out

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. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#darkness #enlightened #even #fall #fallen

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ↗

— Anais Nin

#defeat #endure #known #life #lose

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

— John Locke

#cause #gall #incomes #large #like

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely. ↗

— Richard Savage

#anger #deepest #hot #like #man