Character Quote by Robert Burns

“Pushiness is always at war with stubborness.”

— Toba Beta

Stubbornness is not firmness.

— Friedrich Schiller

“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

“In spite of difficulties and suffering, you can remain firm and maintain your composure”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

— Mariane Pearl

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won’t keep misery away from you And will not set you free.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

— Simon R. Green

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

— Epictetus

My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be…

— Tom Barbash

Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.

— Charles Palmer

“Don’t complain, remain and sustain”

— Sonya Withrow