Obstinacy Quote by Thomas Paine

“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles…

— Anonymous

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation…

— John Keats

But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural…

— Edward Gibbon

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.

— Wu Cheng'en

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

— Alexander Pope

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

— Michel de Montaigne