Quotes About Obstinacy

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable, as an excuse to themselves for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share it themselves truckle to it, and flatter it, and accept it as a law of nature.

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.

folly when it is a perverse persistence in a policy demonstrably unworkable or counter-productive. It

Well, the sister said. Be very sorry for your sins. Oh, he said. I have cried over them all the night, and also for my obstinacy toward your kindness. Will you forgive me? Tears filled his eyes as the nun baptized him. Then he slipped away.

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

It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie—the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Among other common lies, we have the _silent_ lie--the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they _speak_ no lie, they lie not at all.

The United States has a will of its own, very clearly and obstinately expressed, namely, to exact payment from Great Britain. France has a will of her own, equally clearly expressed, namely, to pay nobody.

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.

There was still beauty in this world, even if some days it took every bit of strength and obstinacy to find it.

Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.

John Masterman once wrote: "Sometimes in life27 you feel that there is something which you must do, and in which you must trust your own judgment and not that of any other person. Some call it conscience and some plain obstinacy. Well, you can take your choice.

a man whose ignorance and perverseness are only surpassed by his pertinacity and conceit.

tentación: la de rendirse de una vez por todas y entregarse a sí mismo y al resto del mundo a los designios del demonio con una actitud de indiferencia inerte, rayana en la predisposición; la de cometer un suicidio moral con obstinación y maldad.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

La vida es obstinada... se aferra con más fuerza allí donde más se odia.

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop.

All you need to avoid despair is irremediable stupidity or unlimited stubbornness.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

With this life, I give you stubbornness to keep going in the face of future troubles.

Asking "Why?" can work only where people feel free to speak their minds and the decision makers really listen. "Many employees who worked on the Fire Phone had serious doubts about it," concluded the journalist and author Brad Stone, who has written definitive histories of Amazon, "but no one, it seemed, had been brave or clever enough to take a stand and win an argument with their obstinate leader.