Stubborn Quotes

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

~ Shannon Hale

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

~ Maya Banks

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

~ Amit Kalantri

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

~ Brittany Burgunder

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we’re moving when we actually have no intent of doing so.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don’t know why we fight.It takes much too effort to stay mad at you.To dodge your skin in the hallwayand leave the kitchen without bringing you a treat.It takes much too effort to stare at the sinkso my eyes don’t smile at you in the mirror.It takes much too effort to look away as we undressand lie apart in the now bigger bed.It takes much too effort to stiffen my bodybecause sleepy limbs forget fightsand pride is always lost in dreams.It takes much too effort to awaken every hour to make sure we are islands with a gulf of white sheets separating us.I dread the light peeking through the parted curtainsand empathise with your groans —I didn’t get any sleep either.I really don’t know why we fight.It takes much too effort to stay mad at one anotherwhen it’s so easy for us to love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

~ Stephen King

The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it.

~ Hiba Fatima Ahmad

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:I was wrong. will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

~ Jim Anderson

The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.

~ Alessandra Torre

With all the global warming going around nowadays, it would only take the stubbornness of a mule and the patience of a sitting duck to achieve what no man has ever done before – namely melt the ice in a wax figure’s beaten heart that was chopped off and hidden 50 meters under the polar ice caps in Alaska, to protect it from feeling.

~ Will Advise

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

~ Criss Jami

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How stubborn life is,It clings like silver in our souls.

~ Scott Hastie

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

~ Amit Kalantri

Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.

~ Criss Jami

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I’m choosing to stand up taller. I’ll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I’ll never stay on the ground.

~ Colleen Hoover

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.And there’s a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open.Ash & Urian

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this network of life and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff

~ Harry Turtledove

I ruthlessly expend my time and my energies seeking many random things, none of which will bless me in the way that I suppose they will, for despite my frequently stubborn resistance to the thought, the single and sole blessing that I can be utterly confident in is found in seeking God alone.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?

~ Mary E. Demuth

Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

~ Amit Kalantri

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

~ Tim Fargo

May as well have ox blood running through those veins,” I added, “You’re as stubborn as one.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

This is where Jean's stubbornness and, perhaps, God's stubborn grace came into play. “My definition of grace would be multifaceted, but part of it would certainly be God's passion for brokenness. He does, he really does love brokenness,” Jean told me. “Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

~ Cathleen Falsani

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

~ Criss Jami

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

~ Markus Zusak