Quotes About Stubbornness

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Ik geloof soms dat de koppigheid waarmee mensen aan tradities vasthouden, voldoende is om iedere hoop op te geven dat de mensheid door rationele maatregelen gelukkiger zal worden.

Neither had any interest in compromise or conciliation.

Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She sighed, her breath making the hair at the back of his neck shiver. "Maybe not, but you're stubborn, and that's just as bad." After

It's impossible to pick up a basset hound that doesn't want to be picked up, just as it's impossible to make one keep walking if it doesn't want to walk anymore. It'll just lie down and refuse to budge.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

You work with what you are given, the red clay of grief, the black clay of stubbornness going on after.

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.