Quotes About Obstinacy

Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

obstinacy is perhaps the only human quality that matters at the end of the day, not only in the profession of the policeman but in many professions. At least in any that have something to do with the notion of truth.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.

When I was a schoolboy,' he said, more calmly, 'we had a prayer about being careful not to mistake bluntness for frankness, and obstinacy, I think it was, for constancy. You know, Percy, I have always respected your principles, but you must face the fact that we all have to make compromises in this life if we are to live amicably together. All I am doing is to show you how willing we are to settle things for the best. Even hares and hounds have to shake down in the same world.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Even if it's dying of thirst. Not when it would rather fight the zebra on the other side.

But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says.í

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”