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Quotes About Stubbornness

La sostenía una voluntad de hierro, un gusto maníaco por la perfección y una increíble testarudez»
~ Rosa Montero
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
~ Yogi Berra
... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.
~ Neal Shusterman
When once the Americans have taken up an idea, whether it be well or ill founded, nothing is more difficult than to eradicate it from their minds.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.
~ Joel Osteen
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Who shall argue with the most stubborn of all bigotries, — the fanaticism of unbelief?
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
~ Anonymous
A stubborn and rebellious generation.
~ Anonymous
Profess not the knowledge… that thou hast not.A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last.
~ Anonymous
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.
~ Anonymous
The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.
~ Anonymous
Till Hell freezes over.
~ Anonymous
A stiffnecked people.
~ Anonymous
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
~ Anthony D'Angelo
what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up
~ Anthony Doerr
You said that what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.
~ Anthony Doerr
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
~ Fisher Ames
Based on my experience, it's considerably difficult to force a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I was learning to recognize when God was speaking through someone. He repeats himself. He says it over and over because we are so stubborn, stupid and unwilling. And even scared. Even when he tells us not to be afraid, we set our minds about it, worrying and fretting about every little thing. I was shaken by what God expected us to do.
~ Francine Rivers
Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.
~ Francine Rivers
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
~ Frank Herbert
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
~ Frank McCourt