Best 92 quotes in «stubbornness quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

None so blind as those who will not see.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.