Top 100 Quotes About Stubbornness
#1. To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
William Shakespeare
#2. Few could match her wisdom, and fewer still her stubbornness.
Peter V. Brett
#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. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?
Emalynne Wilder
#5. Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#6. Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#7. to understand him, the temper and the challenge, the brokenness and the stubbornness,
Lisa-Jo Baker
#8. In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
Ann Turner
#9. Am I dealing with stubbornness, idiocy, or some combination of the two?"
"-Cam Rohan
Lisa Kleypas
#10. The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
Phylicia Rashad
#11. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
Jack Gilbert
#12. The Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs's dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname "the beige toaster," which did not enhance its popularity.
Walter Isaacson
#13. And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven
for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until they fight back.
Lauren Oliver
#14. I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#15. Anything that lives here has to be just as harsh and determined as the sun, born of a fiery stubbornness that is either extremely brave or extremely stupid.
Sara Raasch
#16. Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
Max Anders
#17. I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.
Tracy Morgan
#18. Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.
Kim Clijsters
#19. I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.
Caroline Leavitt
#20. 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
#21. a poem written for someone special to me, but a woman who I can't be with all the time due to where we are in life right now. Through the distance love can still survive, it just takes a little hard work and stubbornness at time.
Robert Zimmermann
#22. God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.
James MacDonald
#23. I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
Nikolai Gogol
#24. I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Brett Favre
#25. 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
#26. Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right. ~John
David McCullough
#27. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
Frederick Forsyth
#28. If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!
Konstantin Stanislavski
#29. I find that stubbornness often beats intelligence eventually. Stubbornness will beat anything eventually. That's the whole point of stubbornness.
Scott Meyer
#30. I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
Lauren Conrad
#32. The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.
Michael Medved
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.
Ayn Rand
#36. Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.
Tony Dungy
#37. Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.
Joe Nichols
#38. I don't think there has been a single thing in the history of forever that my wife hasn't accomplished once she set her mind to it." "Only you could find a way to make absolute, unrepentant stubbornness sound like a virtue and not a sin.
L.M. Pruitt
#42. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#43. The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
Robert Breault
#44. To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.
Isaac Asimov
#45. I wonder which will get you killed faster - your loyalty or your stubbornness?
Susan Ee
#46. Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.
Heather Lyons
#47. Survival required a certain degree of stubbornness.
Sarah M. Eden
#48. In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone De Beauvoir
#49. When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.
Walter Isaacson
#50. They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
#51. If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#52. But the walls of my resolve
mortared with stubbornness
have been breached
by circumstances
I cannot handle alone.
Susie Clevenger
#53. I always knew I was stubborn. I just never realized that stubbornness was just another word for determination.
Mia Castile
#54. I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
Renzo Piano
#55. If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
Fred Saberhagen
#56. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#57. And perhaps it was that same stubbornness that had allowed their love to survive and last for as long as it had. After so many untold years together, it was still not enough, would never be enough although eternity stretched before them.
Melinda O'Donnell
#58. I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.
Diego Simeone
#59. The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.
William Steig
#61. Happy is your grace,
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style
William Shakespeare
#62. When arrogant hands once seize power, the ruler thinks authority resides in stubbornness.
Seneca.
#63. How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.
Richard Branson
#64. I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.
Margaret Thatcher
#65. Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
Douglas Brinkley
#66. I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
Cynthia Voigt
#67. 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
#68. In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#69. 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
#70. Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.
Simon R. Green
#72. The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the Father, leaving the earth and earthly things behind, lest He say to us what He said to the Jews because of their stubbornness: 'I go where you cannot come (Jn. 8:21).
Maximus The Confessor
#73. If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
Josh Billings
#74. The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.
John Gardner
#75. Did not. My stubbornness doesn't even own a gun. My stubbornness is a pacifist.
Sophie Oak
#76. You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said.
"And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table.
Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.
Jill Shalvis
#77. Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be kept hidden until enough weapons have been collected.
Margaret Atwood
#78. The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.
Peter F. Hamilton
#80. By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.
Yvor Winters
#81. I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
Kim Gordon
#82. Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.
Neil Peart
#83. Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
Sophocles
#84. When we resist the counsel of the Lord, we manifest stubbornness and rejection of his inspired guidance.
Marion G. Romney
#85. Sometimes God takes us down to nothing so that He can give us all we need. Often we try to hold on to everything anyway, creating idols that mean more to us than God does. We don't realize that our grip is actually crushing the things we love. Our stubbornness does more damage than good.
Nicole Sager
#86. Raffe's legs tremble violently and he's losing consciousness, but he stays up out of sheer stubbornness and fury.
Susan Ee
#87. My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#88. She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what's making her strong.
Veronica Roth
#89. But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.
Robin McKinley
#90. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#91. Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home.
Jeanette Winterson
#92. A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#93. It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
Sophia Amoruso
#94. Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
Robert Jordan
#95. Belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In
Donna Leon
#96. It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.
Django Wexler
#97. One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert
#98. God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
Albert Einstein
#99. Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
Sophocles
#100. We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
Jack Gilbert
