Stubbornness Quotes
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
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.
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.
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.
Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.
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.
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.
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.
The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.
They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.
The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.
There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.
Some people choose to be wrong just to prove they were always right...
Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
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.
We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.
One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.
If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.
A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.
You build walls to fortify your heart, and blame on others for your loneliness.
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.
You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!
People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.
The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.
If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.
It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.
Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.
Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.
#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.
Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.
On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.
