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title: "133 Obstinate Quotes by 117 authors"
description: "Browse 133 Obstinate quotes by 117 authors. Discover the best Obstinate sayings and thoughts."
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> [Obstinate, headstrong girl!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/obstinate-headstrong-girl/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/let-it-be-virtuous-to-be-obstinate/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [I am obstinate and I will not give in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-goodall/i-am-obstinate-and-i-will-not-give-in/)

[Jane Goodall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-goodall/)

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> [resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/resolute-adj-obstinate-in-a-course-that-we-approve/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/he-who-falls-obstinate-in-his-courage-if-he-falls-he-fights-from-his/)

[Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/)

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> [“Just keep telling me I can't do it. I thrive on being obstinate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lori-lesko/just-keep-telling-me-i-can-t-do-it-i-thrive-on-being-obstinate/)

[Lori Lesko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lori-lesko/)

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> [Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/presumption-will-be-easily-corrected-but-timidity-is-a-disease-of-the/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/to-persevere-in-obstinate-condolement-is-a-course-of-impious/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/the-great-man-presides-over-all-his-states-of-consciousness-with/)

[Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/)

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> [Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/narrowness-of-mind-is-often-the-cause-of-obstinacy-we-do-not-easily/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/obstinate-adj-inaccessible-to-the-truth-as-it-is-manifest-in-the/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/my-debts-are-large-my-failures-great-my-shame-secret-and-heavy-yet-i/)

[Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/)

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> [Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/few-men-are-so-obstinate-in-their-atheism-that-a-pressing-danger-will/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akhenaton/true-wisdom-is-less-presuming-than-folly-the-wise-man-doubteth-often/)

[Akhenaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akhenaton/)

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> [Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/human-longings-are-perversely-obstinate-and-to-the-man-whose-mouth-is/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gurfein/a-cantankerous-press-an-obstinate-press-a-ubiquitous-press-must-be/)

Murray Gurfein

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> [The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-bloom/the-liberally-educated-person-is-one-who-is-able-to-resist-the-easy/)

[Allan Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-bloom/)

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> [Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/hence-my-obstinate-emphasis-on-stylistic-continuity-from-work-to-work/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

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> [He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/he-must-be-theory-mad-beyond-redemption-who-shall-persist-in/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/every-returning-new-yorker-asks-the-question-is-this-still-my-city-i/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

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> [Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-wordsworth/those-obstinate-questionings-of-sense-and-outward-things-fallings/)

[William Wordsworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-wordsworth/)

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> [If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/if-it-be-true-that-men-of-strong-imaginations-are-usually-dogmatists/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-verne/however-strong-however-imposing-a-ship-may-appear-it-is-not-disgraced/)

[Jules Verne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-verne/)

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> [An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-jansson/an-island-can-be-dreadful-for-someone-from-outside-everything-is/)

[Tove Jansson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-jansson/)

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> [The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gurfein/the-security-of-the-nation-is-not-at-the-ramparts-alone-security-also-2/)

Murray Gurfein

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> [Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/among-other-common-lies-we-have-the-silent-lie-the-deception-which/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faye-j-crosby/it-is-of-course-entirely-possible-that-men-or-anyone-who-is/)

[Faye J Crosby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faye-j-crosby/)

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> [And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/and-she-hates-being-managed-that-is-not-the-word-i-want-what-is-it/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

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> [Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/obstinate-are-the-trammels-but-my-heart-aches-when-i-try-to-break/)

[Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/)

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> [When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/when-the-gauls-laid-waste-rome-they-found-the-senators-clothed-in/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

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> [Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/philosophy-arises-from-an-unusually-obstinate-attempt-to-arrive-at/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/he-walked-on-without-resting-he-had-a-terrible-longing-for-some/)

[Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/)

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> [A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/a-man-who-is-furnished-with-arguments-from-the-mint-will-convince-his/)

[Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/)

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> [The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/the-belief-that-man-is-an-irresolute-creature-pulled-this-way-and/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

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> [Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-de-montfort/even-if-you-are-on-the-brink-of-damnation-even-if-you-have-one-foot/)

[Louis de Montfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-de-montfort/)

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> [Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/many-are-obstinate-with-regard-to-the-pathway-once-they-have-set-upon/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/the-world-doesn-t-come-to-the-clever-folks-it-comes-to-the-stubborn/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

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> [Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/thinking-too-little-about-things-or-thinking-too-much-both-make-us/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/he-says-no-in-thunder-but-the-devil-himself-cannot-make-him-say-yes/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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