Quotes About Stubbornness

But there was no coaxing Roger over now, or indeed ever: he was a wilful, headstrong, masterful man; a tyrant always though never a cruel one; and accustomed to rule his wife and household as despotically as he did his gangs of workmen. Such men it is not easy to coax over.

There is no beast more stubborn than a woman. And neither fire nor leopard is more ruthless.

Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions

But with rising stubbornness he asserted that if he had to take the arts as something in which he must pass an examination, he would chuck them altogether and be content with poker.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness brands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness brands you for stupidity—pride is a crime.

In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all. And the same thing happens in sailing: make your sheet fast, never slacken,--and over you go

Look, if you think crude, mindless stubbornness such a gift, you've lost your sense of balance

Be warned my son, no man is free from error, but the wise and prudent man, When he has fallen into evil courses Does not persist but tries to find amendment It is the stubborn man who is the fool

If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.

You won't listen to reason at all, will you? No. My mind is my own.

I don't get along with people who think they know everything and everyone.

Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse.

That'll be the day!

But self-will is blind.

They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernment, fixed in refusal to change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a corrupt existing system. They could not change it because they were part of it, grew out of it, depended on it.

folly when it is a perverse persistence in a policy demonstrably unworkable or counter-productive. It

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

I was one of those young cats and knuckleheads that was hard headed, that didn't listen.

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Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.