Quotes About Stubbornness

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

You don't look as tough as that." "I don't know how tough I am—look at me, sick as a pup. But I bet I can match you for stubborn." A sound came out of him. "Holy shit, Ian—was that a laugh?" "A cough," he lied. "You probably got me sick.

Il n'est pas possible d'être aussi con, murmura-t-elle lorsque je lui fis part de mon intention de rejoindre la Pologne, coûte que coûte. Je ne comprends même pas qu'on ne t'ait pas pris dans l'armée, con comme tu es.

Well, anyhow, he thought, the French say that bad temper and stubbornness make one live longer, so I may still be around for a while...

One definition of hell is having your own way all the time.

After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.

What ghost will visit our Hamlet tonight on the castle walls of his dreams? Surely not Robert Brownburn; even if there is a heaven where all animals and men are brought together in a mad reunion, atheists such as Robert will not return to us in phantom form—not because they reside in some celestial detention but out of pure stubbornness.

Every man adheres as long as he can to his own pre-conceptions.

But I have had visions of judgment. I see mainly the obstinacy of cripples. We do not love ourselves, but persist in stubbornness. Each man is stubbornly, stubbornly himself.

But I have had visions of judgment. I see mainly the obstinacy of cripples. We do not love ourselves, but persist in stubbornness. Each man is stubbornly, stubbornly himself. Above all himself, to the end of time.

Wir alle sind so borniert, daß wir immer glauben, recht zu haben.

No one's opinion mattered to Amanda except her own, and she was never wrong. That she was frequently not right was beside the point.

The stubbornness of an idealist; and the soul of a street fighter

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

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

Looking at him now, she saw a study in contrasts. Someone who was kind and loyal but who could also be stubborn and intractable; who was his own man but also your typical man from Mars; who was always there for her but who had a tendency to hold back when showing his own emotions; who was forgetful at times but who never forgot was was most important. In short, someone who wasn't perfect but perfect for her, because of rather than in spite of his flaws.

Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.

My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.

For some reason, I have a thick skull.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

A little uptight? Hey, man you couldn't drag a needle out of her butt with a tractor.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.