Stubborn Quotes

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

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

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

It's useless to lecture a human.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

Graystorm: You know Firestar was also very naughty, just like you. Bramblepaw: Really? He seems to be very responsible! Graystorm: Yes. I was there when he was too stubborn to not help RiverClan

My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!

When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.

I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

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

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.