Obstinacy Quotes

Obstinacy Quote of the day

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

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

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

How much must I overcome before I triumph?

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Your obstinacy towards your goals gives you ignition which leads to your success.

What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!