Stubborn Quotes

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.

...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly present illusion.

Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Be stubborn about your goals, and flexible about your methods.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Stubborness we deprecate,Firmness we condone,The former is our neighbors trait,The latter is our own.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered.

One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,And when at last the fight is won,God, keep me still unsatisfied.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Bow, stubborn knees!

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself.

It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features.

You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Brutes find out where their talents lie;

A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.

One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other.

.. but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier.

I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

Facts are stubborn things.

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously.

I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent.

We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.