Quotes About Stubbornness

Always their men would be fighters, quick to take offense, slow to forgive. To their children and to their children's children they would hand down their love of race, their personal loyalties, their stubbornnesses, their distrust of governments, their servility to no man. These are their strengths and their weaknesses, their glory—and sometimes, Christy, their damnation.

exasperated. 'That's the last thing I'd do. If you don't

A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.

But then her stubbornness was connected to her strength, he supposed, and her strength was one of the things about her that he most admired.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

A sure sign of false faith is its militant stance. While true faith is marked by its gentleness to all aspects of life, false faith can be easily identified by its stubbornness, inflexibility, paranoia, and a desperate need to be right.

Some of these persistent people suffer from delusions, the very definition of which explains why they don't let go: a false belief that cannot be shaken even in the face of compelling contrary evidence.

The universe will teach us our lessons with the tickle of a feather or the whomp of a sledgehammer, depending on how open we are to learning the particular lesson. Getting stubborn and defensive invites the sledgehammer; getting open and curious invites the feather.

Great. She was falling back into stubborn mode. But he didn't mind. She could say anything she wanted, do anything to him. He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper. "And

Huny." Conlan sniffled. "I don't negotiate with terrorists. Oatmeal or nothing.

El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry," indecision when right was "caution," and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination." And withal he wasted no money, killed no man needlessly, and meant extremely well.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but I was right and they were wrong and that made the difference.

La discusión se prolongaba y ambos se perdían en una oratoria confusa que los dejaba agotados, acusándose mutuamente de ser más testarudos que una mula, pero al final se daban las buenas noches con un beso y quedaban ambos con la sensación de que el otro era un ser maravilloso.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.