Stubbornness Quotations

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

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.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

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.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

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.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.