STUBBORNNESS QUOTES
quotations about stubbornness
But thou, like newly-yoked colt,
Champing the bit, dost fight against the rein
Fiercely; yet futile the device wherein
Madly thou trustest; for mere stubbornness
Avails the foolish-hearted less than nought.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest -- their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.
THOMAS PAINE
The American Crisis
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Ideas and Opinions
Your stubbornness is cruel
You know what I'd do for you
And I know where you'd walk for me
But we gotta speak it
Oh so quietly
KATY B
"Go Away", On a Mission
Stubbornness knows not its own defeat.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
For stubborn souls ... death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
Lost Lake
Well partly it's stubbornness
Some of it's spite
But mostly it's twisting my words
To console you
LORI CARSON
"Twisting My Words", Where It Goes
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
SAMUEL BUTLER
"The Obstinate Man", Characters and Passages from Note-books
Stubbornness is like setting yourself on a path with your eyes closed. In other words, you are not seeing and listening for information that is available to help you make right decisions. The primary information you are missing is information from others and information from your own internal voice.
ADAM RAY
The Golden Light Path
I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.
MAYA BANKS
Rush
Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.
JOHN ADAMS
letter to Edmund Jenings, 1782
And the devils always smiling when you pass by
Drifting on my piece of sorry, shattered stubbornness
PEPPER
"Dry Spell"
I commend your stubbornness
Without it we'd never got this far
WEEZER
"Devotion"
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
The Doctor
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
The Complete Essays
Pig-headed stubbornness is the perseverance of somebody we don't like.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
No creature is as stubborn as a mule, except the man who says so.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Some people will have their own way even when they don't know what it is.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Sometimes stubbornness is not such a bad thing. Being daring is trying to do what society considers as difficult but possible. However, you are considered a dreamer or stubborn if you insist and try to accomplish what society considers as impossible. Contextually it carries negative meaning and refers to someone being unrealistic and living in a surreal world. You may even be considered delusional. There are many who defied contemporary thinking in order to accomplish their dreams and history has vindicated them by immortalizing their names and their works.
NANA ABOAGYE
Dare to Actualize Your Dream
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods