“A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.” — R.P. Falconer Copy Share Image
“I have waited my entire life to love you and I refuse to let your stubbornness take you away from me.” — Kate Meader Copy Share Image
“Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.” — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.” — Michelle D. Rosado Copy Share Image
Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going. — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Put that pride/stubbornness aside and reach out to someone n make amends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way -… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“To a hammer, every problem is a nail,” we said on the team but we called him ‘the screwdriver’. We were confronted… — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“She released a small sigh at her own stubbornness. There was no greater fool than a woman who looked at a man… — Victoria Lynne Copy Share Image
“Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of… — Stan Turner Copy Share Image
Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“That’s crazy,” Emma said, sheer stubbornness making her deny what she already knew was happening.” — Erin M. Leaf Copy Share Image
“how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.” — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“As long as we insist on hanging on to our hate, the world will not know peace.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds. — Louis Nizer (American Lawyer Copy Share Image
“He might have gotten his way in the hallway earlier, but now he's on my turf. He isn't gonna push me around.” — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Dont be victimized by negative emotions and thinking. Dont be handicapped by stubbornness and inflexibility — Varsha Sharma Copy Share Image
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years. — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
“You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose. You tell… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image