Stubbornness Quotes

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

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

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

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

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

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