Top 100 Stubborn's Quotes
#1. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
Ian Lamont
#2. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Ivar Giaever
#3. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#4. If you love her, set her free. If she comes back, she's yours. If she doesn't ... Christ! Stubborn woman! Hunt her down, and bring her the hell back; she's still yours according to vampire law.
- Niccolo DiConti, General of the Vampire Queen's Army.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#5. With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like a divinely ordained scheme, I cast myself upon the waters of the world's oceans.
Roz Savage
#6. If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Jeff Bezos
#7. How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.
Anthony Doerr
#9. You're the most stubborn person I've ever met, and sometimes it seems like your sole purpose in life is to make mine harder, but I swear, I love you more than I thought I could love anyone.
James Patterson
#10. I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
Emily Giffin
#11. Yes, Detective Mitchell James Lawson was stubborn. More stubborn than me. Damn.
Kristen Ashley
#12. All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.
Francisco Costa
#13. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.
Carlos Fuentes
#15. My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.
Sarah Lafleur
#16. You are precious" I insisted. "Stubborn and secretive and independent to a fault, but precious.
Alyxandra Harvey
#17. I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever ...
Destiny Booze
#18. Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?"
"Are you calling me stupid?"
"Yes, but in a more poetic way!"
"Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!
Colleen Houck
#19. Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.
Matthew Tindal
#20. There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.
George F. Kennan
#21. Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.
Amy B. Scher
#22. The compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.
Silvia Tennenbaum
#23. My ancestors further back than the first Roman were Hebrews." "The stubborn pride of thy race is not lost in thee," said Arrius, observing a flush upon the rower's face. "Pride is never so loud as when in chains." "What cause hast thou for pride?" "That I am a Jew." Arrius smiled.
Lew Wallace
#24. She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Catherynne M Valente
#25. I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.
Evangeline Lilly
#26. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Daphne Merkin
#27. You don't understand; this girl's different. She's beautiful, kind, giving, sweet, strong, stubborn, and quite a smart ass."
Connor Black's thoughts on Ellery Lane
Sandi Lynn
#28. For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so astounding, so mysterious, it comes close to looking like Jesus' stubborn love for the church.
Rachel Held Evans
#29. She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to a kind of original stupidity, an unimaginative, stubborn stupidity.
George Sand
#30. When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
#31. the resilience they had both displayed, the same stubborn strength that had lifted them out of bad circumstances. Except in Auma I had also sensed a willingness to put the past behind her, a capacity to somehow forgive, if not necessarily forget.
Barack Obama
#32. I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear.
Lesley Pearse
#33. There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
Wallis Simpson
#34. Calling Sol stubborn was like calling an outhouse aromatic.
Suzie Quint
#35. If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#36. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.
Victor Hugo
#37. This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced ... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.
Gerhard Schroder
#38. There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.
Pete Dexter
#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
#40. The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebellious, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the work of mortification that we treat of.
John Owen
#41. My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
Bitsie Tulloch
#42. Be stubborn if you wish to, if you need to, but we know how this will end.
Chloe Neill
#43. 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
#44. ...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
#45. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
Michelle Malkin
#46. A choice is like a jigsaw puzzle, darling troll. Your worries are the corner pieces, and your hopes are the edge pieces, and you, Hawthorn, dearest of boys, are the middle pieces, all funny-shaped and stubborn. But the picture, the picture was there all along, just waiting for you to get on with it.
Catherynne M Valente
#47. The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
Immanuel Kant
#48. He doesn't beat me," I said irritably. "I'd kill him if he did."
"She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we're working on that, aren't we, Ms. Lane?
Karen Marie Moning
#49. 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
#50. 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 ...
#51. God, you're so fucking stubborn. You're like a menopausal pissed-off mule!
Emma Chase
#52. A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
#53. Milton stood among his staff, shaking hands, memorising names. He already knew them in a way - he understood this breed backward and had foreseeen how his speech would be received. Journalists were as touchy as Cabernet performers and as stubborn as factory machinists. He couldn't help smiling.
Tom Rachman
#54. I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.
Radical Face
#55. that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.
Maj Sjowall
#56. Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
Christopher Hitchens
#57. Just agree, you stubborn child." "Secondboy!" Drizzt corrected, his voice again a growl, and his arms defiantly back over his chest.
R.A. Salvatore
#58. You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?
Carrie Ryan
#59. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris West
#60. You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
Anna Maxted
#61. Why did Meridith have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she just give him a chance? He knew they'd be amazing together. She'd opened her heart to the kids, admirably so. It couldn't have been easy accepting her father's other children, but she'd done it. Why couldn't she open her heart to him?
Denise Hunter
#62. 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
#63. Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#64. Just because some dreams never see light that doesn't make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn's but trust me the illusion is worse.
Parul Wadhwa
#65. Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children, and you live your life. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. But life does go on.
Karen White
#66. I have better things to do."
"Like what?"
He opens one eye and looks at me. "Like convince a stubborn girl to admit she's madly in love with me.
Susan Ee
#67. I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
Gregory Peck
#68. 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
#69. Tommy was . . . exciting." It took her a moment to decide on the word. "He was motion and emotion. He never stopped moving, never stopped feeling. He was stubborn and loyal and never once thought about the consequences of anything he did.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#70. Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
Jean De La Bruyere
#71. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
Helen Keller
#72. Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.
Sandeep Sharma
#73. 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
#74. But she was well used to stubborn patients, the majority of which were always of the male persuasion. She figured it had something to do with carrying a penis around all the time.
Jill Shalvis
#75. They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#76. Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.
Theodore Kaczynski
#77. He shot me a cocky smile. "Definitely dibbs." I rolled my eyes because my brother was stupidly stubborn. "Dude, she's not the front seat of mom's old minivan.
Rachel Higginson
#78. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'
Ramsay MacMullen
#79. 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
#80. The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.
Carl Hiaasen
#81. 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
#82. You were meant to be my balance. What I felt for Mal was messy and stubborn and might leave me heartbroken in the end, but it was also human.
Leigh Bardugo
#83. Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned ... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
Lydia Lunch
#84. Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#85. He'd fallen for her - for her sometimes amusing, sometimes confounding combination of strength, brains, drive, vulnerability, and mile-wide stubborn streak. He'd fallen for the whole complicated package, screwed-up father included.
Samanthe Beck
#86. Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.
Michael Bloomberg
#87. These stubborn people and their demands were like cracker crumbs in my beard: irritating and flaky.
Penny Reid
#88. The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.
Billy Graham
#89. Martinez is a devout Catholic. I knew that. What I didn't know was he brought along a small wooden cross. I'm sure NASA gave him shit about it, but I also know Martinez is one stubborn son of a bitch.
Andy Weir
#90. Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.
Christopher Markus
#92. 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
#93. May as well have ox blood running through those veins," I added, "You're as
stubborn as one.
Katherine McIntyre
#94. Most of the problems in life are because:
We misunderstand people's intentions,
We don't listen and jump to conclusions,
Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.
Mouloud Benzadi
#95. My emotions still held a stubborn hope that humans could be loyal, that they could hold out against the promise of an easy life. But I knew better.
Julie Kagawa
#96. Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#97. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.
Umberto Eco
#98. Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are ... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.
Armistead Maupin
#99. I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie.
Dorothy Allison
#100. It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
Mark Twain
