Stubbornness Quotes

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.

~ Colleen Hoover

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

~ C. Joybell C.

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

~ Maya Banks

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

~ Amit Kalantri

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

~ Brittany Burgunder

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

~ Charles Dickens

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

~ Jane Austen

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

Go ahead, let them judge you.

~ Unknown

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

~ Solange Nicole

Some people choose to be wrong just to prove they were always right...

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

~ Clifton Adams

There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older.

~ Criss Jami

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

~ Criss Jami

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

~ Jack Gilbert

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

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

~ Criss Jami

One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

~ Amit Kalantri

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

~ Peter Cimino

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard

~ Michael Michalko

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

A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.

~ R.p. Falconer

You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Harry Turtledove

Wow…At least I can rest assured that you definitely can’t read my mind,” I remarked. “Clearly you know nothing about me…because the surest way to keep me from doing something is to tell me I have no other choice.

~ M.a. George

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others. —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2

~ Joseph Telushkin

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.

~ Salman Rushdie

People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.

~ Will Advise

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself, feels liberating. I started to believe that the universe was conspiring to help me finish my house, sending people along at the right moment.

~ Dee Williams

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

~ William Steig

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