Stubbornness Quotes

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. (Albert Einstein)
Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going. View quote
Simon R. Green
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. View quote
Jane Austen
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not. View quote
Renzo Piano
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind. View quote
Joe Nichols
When we've agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. (Arundhati Roy)
The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity. View quote
Dean Acheson
... a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning. Ages of accumulation are entrusted to the frail bark of each passing epoch by the hand of the past, desiring to make over its treasures to the use of the future. It takes a certain stubbornness, a doggedness of loyalty, even a modicum of unreasonable conservatism maybe, to lose nothing in the long march of the ages; and, even when confronted with great empires, with a sudden extension of the idea of culture, or with the supreme temptation of a new religion, to hold fast what we have, adding to it only as much as we can healthfully and manfully carry. View quote
Sister Nivedita
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years. View quote
Brett Favre
Sometimes Conviction Leads To Stubbornness. View quote
Shannon Leto
Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system,” an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry,” indecision when right was "caution,” and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.”. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. View quote
Louise Erdrich
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. (E. W. Howe)
(Referring to the Kuomintang) There are many stubborn elements, graduates in the speciality schools of stubbornness. They are stubborn today, they will be stubborn tomorrow, and they will be stubborn the day after tomorrow. What is stubbornness (wan gu)? "Gu" is to be stiff. "Wan" is to not progress: not today, nor tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow. People like that are called the "stubborn elements". It is not an easy thing to make the stubborn elements listen to our words. View quote
Mao Zedong
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. View quote
Yvor Winters
Our stubbornness is right, because we want to preserve the liberty which we have in Christ. Only by preserving our liberty shall we be able to retain the truth of the Gospel inviolate. View quote
Martin Luther