Stubbornness Quotes · Page 5

“I wonder which will get you killed faster—your loyalty or your stubbornness?”

— Susan Ee

“Some men would rather break their donkeys back, than give them the carrot they both require to progress.”

— R.P. Falconer

“If you are to survive, you need to put your stubbornness aside and listen to me.” “Oh, I just love that idea.”

— Devon Monk

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“(When I look at my picture I read stubbornness, balked vanity, panic, vulnerability.)”

— Susan Sontag

Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.

— John Wooden

“If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

— Rumer Godden

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as…

— Oswald Chambers

Thr Difference are Between Stubbornness or Passion: Stubborn is portal of yours ruination and Passion are your ladder of achievement

— Mak_786

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I…

— Caroline Leavitt

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I…

— Phylicia Rashad

Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go…

— Sara Seager

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way -…

— Alastair Cook

[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

“To a hammer, every problem is a nail,” we said on the team but we called him ‘the screwdriver’. We were confronted…

— Massimo Marino

This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their…

— Grace Paley

Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody…

— Deepak Chopra

“And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies?…

— Augustine of Hippo

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American…

— Gordon S. Wood

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was stubborn like that, refusing to let my heart redefine how I operated. Looking back, there is a part of me…

— Dee Williams

“Dare to change the world There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is…

— Gioconda Belli

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit…

— Kristen Bell

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

— Jack Kerouac

I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.

— Darcey Bussell

“People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.”

— Steven Erikson

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

— Ruth Kelly

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

— Lauren Conrad

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

— Stuart Scott

We have...dragons. Most people would leave. Not us. We're Vikings. We have, stubbornness issues.

— Hiccup

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

— Jon Krakauer

“Did not. My stubbornness doesn’t even own a gun. My stubbornness is a pacifist.”

— Sophie Oak

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

— Anonymous

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff”

— Harry Turtledove

“But the walls of my resolve mortared with stubbornness have been breached by circumstances I cannot handle alone.”

— Susie Clevenger

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

— Albert Einstein

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

— Albert Einstein

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn…

— Joe Nichols