1.
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
Jeanne Moreau
3.
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
Michel de Montaigne
4.
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
Suzanne Curchod
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The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.
St. Jerome
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Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
Aeschylus
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
10.
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
John Dryden
11.
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Henry Ward Beecher
12.
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Albert Einstein
14.
Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
Wayne White
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Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche