Quotes About Stubbornness

I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am

when we challenge our assumptions about the world—or even more important, when we realize we're making an assumption that we didn't even know we were making—we may or may not change our views. But even if we don't, the exercise of challenging them should at least force us to notice our own stubbornness, which in turn should give us pause.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

So when an individual adheres to a market position despite the mounting losses, he is a crowd.

That is the essence of women's sin natures in marriage. They often become stubbornly defiant and refuse to receive input from God or their husbands concerning issues in their lives and marriages.

When you are operating under the influence of an inner vow, you are unteachable and unapproachable. You think you are the genius in a world of stooges.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (1 Samuel 15:23a NKJV)

Why would the Bible equate stubbornness with the sin of idolatry? Because it is the worship of our own opinion. Stubborn people are hard to deal with because they are filled with pride and can't acknowledge any thinking that doesn't align with their own.

I don't like to be proved wrong.

don't. So there.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

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

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

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

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

The Dutchman was hard Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.

The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.

Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.