Quotes About Obstinacy

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

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. "Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—" She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte's mouth so firmly set into a hard line. "Would you like a thesaurus?" Will inquired. "You seem to be running out of words.

So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un necio y su necedad.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

man who thinks he is guarding himself against prejudices [by which he means inherited moral standards and taboos] by resisting the authority of others, leaves open every avenue to singularity, vanity, self-conceit, obstinacy, and many other vices, all tending to warp the judgment.

The interests of large classes had been unfavourably affected by the establishment of the new diligences; and, as usual, many persons were, from mere stupidity and obstinacy, disposed to clamour against the innovation, simply because it was an innovation. It

There are none who are as deaf as those who do not want to hear." —BARRY LEVENTHAL

Stubborn breaks when it don't bend

Se preguntó con amargura por qué la vida se obstinaba en demostrarles que debían separarse cuando estaban juntos..., para volver a reunirlos cuando trataban de alejarse.

Men are so difficult - If they think you're trying to push them in a particular direction they dig in their heels and won't budge.

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

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

Tinha aprendido que quando as pessoas estavam decididas a fazer algo que acreditavam ser uma boa ação, em geral era impossível dissuadi-las.

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

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

A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind.