Stubbornness Quotes

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't push him in.

— Rock Cowles

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

— Tony Dungy

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

— Richard DeVos

None so blind as those who will not see.

— Anonymous

“Our stubbornness is what’s gotten us this far!”

— Ryuhei Tamura

there's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind!

— Susan Jeffers

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

— Maya Banks

“And he said... ...put a stick up your nose and it will never grow leaves.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

— Sophia Amoruso

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

— Diego Simeone

“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

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

— Robert Southey

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure…

— Tracy Morgan

“Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues…

— Jim Butcher

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if…

— Margaret Thatcher

“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

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…

— John Adams

“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.”

— Richard Adams

“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…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Stubbornness pays! We tend to think that it doesn’t, we might be hesitant to be stubborn – however only the stubborn succeed.”

— Michael Nir

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going…

— Jon Krakauer

“Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below…

— Heather Lyons

One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step…

— Mary Blakely

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most…

— Richard Bausch

“People think I am strong. I am not strong. There is a difference between a strong person and a stubborn person who…

— C. JoyBell C

Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held…

— R.A. Dickey

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

— Grace Paley

“Sometimes God takes us down to nothing so that He can give us all we need. Often we try to hold on…

— Nicole Sager

As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide…

— Michel de Montaigne

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together…

— Marge M. Kennedy

“Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that…

— Susan Cheever

“...are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not…

— Michael Michalko

I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll…

— Marshall Curry