STUBBORNNESS QUOTES

quotations about stubbornness

Sacrifice quote

But thou, like newly-yoked colt,
Champing the bit, dost fight against the rein
Fiercely; yet futile the device wherein
Madly thou trustest; for mere stubbornness
Avails the foolish-hearted less than nought.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

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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.

THOMAS PAINE

The American Crisis

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

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Ideas and Opinions

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Your stubbornness is cruel
You know what I'd do for you
And I know where you'd walk for me
But we gotta speak it
Oh so quietly

KATY B

"Go Away", On a Mission


Stubbornness knows not its own defeat.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


For stubborn souls ... death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

Lost Lake


Stubbornness is like setting yourself on a path with your eyes closed. In other words, you are not seeing and listening for information that is available to help you make right decisions. The primary information you are missing is information from others and information from your own internal voice.

ADAM RAY

The Golden Light Path


Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

JOHN ADAMS

letter to Edmund Jenings, 1782

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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

SAMUEL BUTLER

"The Obstinate Man", Characters and Passages from Note-books


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

MAYA BANKS

Rush


Well partly it's stubbornness
Some of it's spite
But mostly it's twisting my words
To console you

LORI CARSON

"Twisting My Words", Where It Goes


And the devils always smiling when you pass by
Drifting on my piece of sorry, shattered stubbornness

PEPPER

"Dry Spell"


A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

The Doctor

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I commend your stubbornness
Without it we'd never got this far

WEEZER

"Devotion"


It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The Complete Essays

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Pig-headed stubbornness is the perseverance of somebody we don't like.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

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No creature is as stubborn as a mule, except the man who says so.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Some people will have their own way even when they don't know what it is.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Sometimes stubbornness is not such a bad thing. Being daring is trying to do what society considers as difficult but possible. However, you are considered a dreamer or stubborn if you insist and try to accomplish what society considers as impossible. Contextually it carries negative meaning and refers to someone being unrealistic and living in a surreal world. You may even be considered delusional. There are many who defied contemporary thinking in order to accomplish their dreams and history has vindicated them by immortalizing their names and their works.

NANA ABOAGYE

Dare to Actualize Your Dream


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

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods

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