Quotes About Pride And Stubbornness

#1. I made my life, the same way it looks like you're gonna make yours - out of pride and stubbornness and too much anger. You better think hard, Ruth Anne, about what you want and who you're mad at. You better think hard.

Dorothy Allison

#2. We must be willing to place all that we have
not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity
we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#3. Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.

Shirley Jackson

#4. I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.

Doug Hutchison

#5. Now I will have less distraction.

Leonhard Euler

#6. There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz

Mitch Albom

#7. Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. I whirled and locked gazes with him, shucked my pride, doffed my prickly alpha stubbornness and said, You are my world, Jericho Barrons. Not him. Never him.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

Star Jones

#10. One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

John Avlon

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#12. What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of success are quite remote and the consequences of failure are likely to be devastating? Is it pride, stubbornness, a yearning for adventure, or just a reckless disregard of reality?

Stan Turner