Obstinate Quote by William Shakespeare

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

— Rumer Godden

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.”

— Patricia Wentworth

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise. Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Even if one has learned all the sayings of the sages and saints, he should not insist on them obstinately.”

— Asakura Soteki

“We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness,…

— Madame Guyon

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party,…

— Samuel Johnson

“they are mystified by certain instances.”

— William Carlos Williams