Best 92 quotes in «stubbornness quotes» category

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 stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

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.

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

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

To a hammer, every problem is a nail,” we said on the team but we called him ‘the screwdriver’. We were confronted with stubborn nails and we needed a sledgehammer.

We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.

We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

We live in a society where people feel they have to be right, no matter what. If we subscribe to that narrow view, the critical gray area is compromised.

We went back and forth, week after week, as I remember it. I was stubborn and so was she. I had a point of view and she did, too. In between disputes, I continued to play the piano and she continued to listen, offering a stream of corrections. I gave her little credit for my improvement as a player. She gave me little credit for improving. But still, the lessons went on.

What Do You Really Want? : In this vast sea of possibilities we¹re neither passive nor in charge, though we tend to learn that the hard way, after repeated bouts of stubborn will.

Wow…At least I can rest assured that you definitely can’t read my mind,” I remarked. “Clearly you know nothing about me…because the surest way to keep me from doing something is to tell me I have no other choice.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2

You build walls to fortify your heart, and blame on others for your loneliness.

You're not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don't think you are. But you'll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.

You're always cutting your nose off to spite your face. I've never met a woman as stubborn as you. Even when it's not in your interests you'll do something to make a point.

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.

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

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

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

None so blind as those who will not see.

there's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind!

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

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

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

A hard head makes a soft ass.

A man of principles was forced to swallow an insult. He choked and died.

And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand.

A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.

Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.

Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.

But then her stubbornness was connected to her strength, he supposed, and her strength was one of the things about her that he most admired.

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah." Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them." [Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]

Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.

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.

Fat-heided creatures, the Carmichaels," she said judiciously. "Loyal enough, but stubborn as rocks." "Thus sayeth a Fraser," I remarked. "The Carmichaels must be something special in that line.