Quotes About Being Stubborn

#1. Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn.

Bryce C. Anderson

#2. Coach Noll had always told me, Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Tony Dungy

#3. Gibson Goode to Archy: You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.

Michael Chabon

#4. Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Herbie Mann

#5. I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

Harry Hay

#6. Being stubborn is not a bad thing, it shows determination.

Joshua Wright

#7. Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Willie Aames

#8. The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance ... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

Michael Dorris

#10. During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

Marlee Matlin

#11. Now you're just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.:

Mercedes Lackey

#12. Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Thanhha Lai

#13. For someone who's had a life like mine, living beyond sixty is just being stubborn.

Daniel Galera

#14. A tree in the middle of a giant rock may grow up if it is stubborn like hell! Sometimes to be successful in life is simply made up of being stubborn as a mule!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.

William Butler Yeats

#16. You can't keep failing. You can't keep being defiant and stubborn. You have to make changes. You need to turn your life around.

Khali Raymond

#17. Oh stop being so stubborn! You want him to be right, I can tell, I can read you, child. Because if he's right and Imogen's a liar that means you can jump back on that Italian sausage straight away.

Billy London

#18. I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

#19. My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

Robert Dilts

#20. The body may be the home of the soul and the pathway of the spirit, but it is also the perversity, the stubborn resistance, the malign contagion of the material world. Having a body, being in the body, is like being roped to a sick cat.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#22. She was a former Texan - proud, loud and stubborn. But you can't really be a former Texan. You can only move out of Texas. To be a former Texan would be like growing up in Italy, moving out and being formerly Italian.

Jeffrey Michelson

#23. Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

Deepak Chopra

#24. She wanted to yell at him, to beat his chest with her fists and accuse him of being addled and stubborn and blind.

Melanie Dickerson

#25. In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

Terry Francona

#26. I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Larry Wall

#27. 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

#28. I grab her by the hips and pull her closer. "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." Then I whisper in her ear. "But take all the time you need. I have nothing but patience for you.

Colleen Hoover

#29. Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

#30. I would never give up on you, Alex. Never."
"Then why are you being such a
"
"What?" His voice dropped low. "I'm being what?"
Infuriating. Stubborn. Thick-skulled. Freaking sexy.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#31. I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Dree Hemingway

#32. Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

Jess Walter

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

Shannon Hale

#34. He raised an eyebrow. "I have to get closer? I don't remember damsels being so stubborn about leaping into a knight's arms.

Melissa Jagears

#35. There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.

M.M. Kaye

#36. If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Ken Kesey

#37. It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.

Robin McKinley

#38. ...being in love. It was not an emotion that could be willed away when it became too arduous to bear. It clung tight with the tenacity of a stubborn clam, forcing its victim to face the pain (Adam Ashworth).

Cynthia Wicklund

#39. You don't scare me," Tyler said, leaning in. "Stop being so damn stubborn. I'm good for you."
- "What if I'm bad for you?

Jamie McGuire