Stubbornness Quotes

Stubbornness Quote of the day

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

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.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

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

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

Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.

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

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

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.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

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

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

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.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

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

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

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

If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

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

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

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

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

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

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.

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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

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

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

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

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.