Best 92 quotes in «stubbornness quotes» category

For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing.

Gibson Goode to Archy: "You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.

God’s mercy and patience with us are beyond our ability to comprehend. He pursues us until we respond to Him. But sometimes rebellion or a hard heart makes us unreachable. I believe we can turn so far away from God in our stubbornness that we place ourselves out of His reach.

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

Hopkit held up his paw. Although the infection had gone, his foot was limp and flat, and he had no feeling in it. “But how can I be a warrior with this?” “You can walk on it, can’t you?” Hawkheart wasn’t giving a drop of sympathy. “I can limp.” Hawkheart snorted. “If you can limp, you can walk. If you can walk, you can hunt.” “What about fighting?” Hopkit persisted. “What if I can’t fight?” “Then you’ll just have to argue your enemies to death.” Hawkheart settled onto his side and half closed his eyes. “You’re great at arguing.

He seemed every bit as riled and menacing as the bull had a few minutes ago. But Phoebe wasn't about to let him make his injury worse out of pure male stubbornness. "Forgive me if I'm being tyrannical," she said in her most soothing tone. "I tend to do that when I'm concerned about someone. It's your decision, naturally. But I wish you would indulge me in this, if only to spare me from worrying over you every step of the way home." The mulish set of his jaw eased. "I manage other people," he informed her. "People don't manage me." "I'm not managing you." "You're trying," he said darkly. An irrepressible grin spread across her face. "Is it working?" Slowly Mr. Ravenel's head lifted. He didn't reply, only gave her a strange, long look that spurred her heartbeat until she was light-headed from the force of its pounding. No man had ever stared at her like this. Not even her husband, for whom she'd always been close and attainable, her presence woven securely into the fabric of his days. Since childhood, she'd always been Henry's safe harbor. But whatever it was this man wanted from her, it wasn't safety. "You should humor my daughter's wishes, Ravenel," Sebastian advised from behind her. "The last time I tried to refuse her something, she launched into a screaming fit that lasted at least an hour." The comment broke the trance. "Father," Phoebe protested with a laugh, twisting to glance at him over her shoulder. "I was two years old!" "It made a lasting impression.

I’m from the lineage of the Panzas, and they’re all stubborn, and if they say odds once, odds it’ll be, even if it’s evens, no matter what anybody says.

I am not stubborn, I am determined.

If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.

It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

In i det längsta ville hon vara en god dotter ... In i det sista ville hon visa en ängels tålamod ... Ända in på slutet beredde hon sig att orubblig försöka ta emot de stötar, som föräldrarnas obetänksamma uppträdande och otakt kunde ge henne ... Hon beslöt sig att vara karaktärsfast. Hade hon sagt en sak, så skulle ingenting kunna förmå henne att ändra den. Ingen skulle kunna säga efteråt: "Det var tal om det, men det vart inte .. ." Marta skulle visa minsann, att det skulle bli!” (Sid. 190)

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

Look at that blacksmith, for instance,” went on Father Brown calmly; “a good man, but not a Christian — hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself, feels liberating. I started to believe that the universe was conspiring to help me finish my house, sending people along at the right moment.

I was stubborn like that, refusing to let my heart redefine how I operated. Looking back, there is a part of me that wants to replace the word 'stubborn' with 'reckless'; there are many things I would do differently now, but what good does it do to retrace your steps? Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the "old you" by proclaiming how smart the new you is.

Magic happens when a stubborn soul never gives up on her dreams!

Magic happens when you don't give up, even when you want to. The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart.

Mais Turandot sort brusquement de son bistrot et, du bas des marches, il lui crie : "Eh petite, où vas-tu comme ça ?" Zazie ne lui rèpond pas, elle se contente d'allonger le pas.

Nobody Home: You're chained to your denial in a way that blunt force cannot undo. And you'll keep paying the price of that servitude until you're ready to be really free.

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.

On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.

Patience doesn't mean waiting. It means being steadfast despite opposition.

People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.

Mules had nothing on me when it came to being stubborn.

No, I'd better sit on to the end,' I went on thinking; 'you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away. Nothing will induce me to go. I'll go on sitting here and drinking to the end, on purpose, as a sign that I don't think you of the slightest consequence.

People think I am strong. I am not strong. There is a difference between a strong person and a stubborn person who just won't put her sword down. I am the latter. Again and again and again... pick the sword up, pick the sword up, pick the sword up...

Prone to persistent failure — check your medication, maybe you are taking stubbornness mixed with stupidity, try stubbornness with a mix of intelligence & small dose of dedication, oh yes, time to time scanning of results always helps.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

She juts out her lower jaw, a purposeful imitation of Daddy Eric when she asks him a question with an answer that isn't yes right away, but will be yes eventually if she waits long enough.

So I won't. I won't think of it, and I'll make procrastination my new national pastime.

Some men would rather break their donkeys back, than give them the carrot they both require to progress.

Some people choose to be wrong just to prove they were always right...

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…

Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this fight.

The most important thing is to never give up." Adrian Esteban

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.

There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles sulkily away like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest; their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

The silliest people are usually the most tenacious of their opinions.

The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff