Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool. — Bertrand Russell
Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll
Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat — Kim Hyun-joong
and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world. — Mikhail Bulgakov
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers
Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. — Mark Victor Hansen
Short Obstinacy Quotes
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. — Man Ray
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. — Suzanne Curchod
The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck. — St. Jerome
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. — Michael Servetus
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will. — Alexander Maclaren
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. — Sir Thomas Browne
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton
Stubbornness Quotes
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost. — Theodore Kaczynski
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. — Leon Festinger
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. — James Baldwin
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? — Gilles Deleuze
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain
You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details. — Jeff Bezos
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. — Gregory Peck
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never. — Immanuel Kant
Being Stubborn Quotes
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. — Herbie Mann
My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced. — Sarah Lafleur
They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. — Scottish Proverbs
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. — Chris Evert
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. — Robinson Jeffers
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. — Jane Austen
For the great majority of transactions, being stubborn about a tiny fractional difference in the price can prove extremely costly. — Philip Arthur Fisher
The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded. — Anton Szandor LaVey
The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly. — William O'Neil
You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both. — Roger Federer
Stubborn Quotes
Somebody with an unrelenting heart is his own executioner — Greek Proverbs
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. — Anne Lamott
Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. — John Milton
Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in. — Mandy Hale
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming. — Michael Saylor
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. — Denzel Washington
It's not to an old monkey that one can teach to pull faces. — French Proverbs
A headstrong man and a fool may wear the same cap. — Danish Proverbs
I’m very stubborn. Once I put my mind to something… I’m just going to make it happen. — MrBeast
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope]. — Galileo Galilei
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. — Jeanne Moreau
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness. — Edward Gibbon
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. — Confucius
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli. — John Maynard Keynes
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. — Seamus Heaney
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. — Henry Ward Beecher
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. — Antoine Rivarol
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow. — Carl von Clausewitz
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying. — Anais Nin
Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred. — Yasmina Khadra
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool. — Charles Caleb Colton
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness. — Lev Shestov
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy. — Benjamin Whichcote
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. — Thomas Browne
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal. — Samuel Johnson
No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong. — Samuel Johnson
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see. — John Dryden
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly. — William Hazlitt
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Michel de Montaigne
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — Aeschylus
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