Quotes About Stubbornness

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one.

Creía que estabas muerto-. dijo -Soy demasiado cabezota como para dejarme matar.

I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed." --Lola

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause—and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Faced with the choice of changing one's mind versus proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone opts for the latter.

It's this same habit that confirms some of us, who are capable of better things, in Lucifer's own pride and stubbornness - that confirms and deepens others of us in villainy - more of us in indifference - that hardens us from day to day, according to the temper of our clay, like images, and leaves us as susceptible as images to new impressions and convictions.

It had more corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man;

Joy it is in everything and anything we might experience; God has placed it all around us... My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Maybe I was being stubborn and stupid and making the wrong decisions. It wouldn't be the first time, and god knows it surely won't be the last. Because I was going to bust out of this joint if it was the last thing I did. One simply had to figure out how.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

My way of thinking is better than yours.

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.

The growth of this kind of stubborn ignorance in the midst of the Information Age cannot be explained away as merely the result of rank ignorance. Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all worse than ignorance: it is unfounded arrogance, the outrage of an increasingly narcissistic culture that cannot endure even the slightest hint of inequality of any kind.

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles sulkily away like a fractured arch. 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.

One of the most pathetic — and dangerous — signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.

the Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs's dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname "the beige toaster," which did not enhance its popularity.