The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable…

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Karl Popper

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her…

— Edmund White

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

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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

— Michael Servetus

But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I…

— Loretta Chase

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now…

— Seamus Heaney

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as…

— Jasper Johns

Stiff opinion, always in the wrong.

— John Dryden

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Stubbornness is a weapon. People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened—be it dignity, honor, pride, desires,…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— St. Jerome