quotations about stubbornness
Stubbornness is mostly inherent in a person's nature; stubborn children are troublesome subjects of education, and will baffle the utmost skill and patience.
G. CRABB
attributed, Day's Collacon
There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.
TOM ROB SMITH
Child 44
I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Fallen Angels
Being stubborn can be a beneficial personality trait in some situations, especially when taking a stand and holding onto your position are important.
BERIT BROGAARD
"5 Signs That You're Dealing With a Passive-Aggressive Person", Psychology Today, November 13, 2016
I throw it away my ignorance, my stubbornness, my limitation, my conceit.
I throw it into the fire and I burn it up, so I can feel the heat.
I do wonders, I can fly, I reach the deepest point, then I touch the sky.
I do wonders, now I can see, cause I reach it, cause I realize me.
ABSURD MINDS
"The Focus"
All of that stubbornness melts away
When I wake with her head on my shoulder
MONTGOMERY GENTRY
"She Don't Tell Me To"
Now hey you, clear your mind
'Cause stubbornness is all that I can find
But oh dear, we've gotta stay
To finish all that we needed to say
LOLA MARSH
"Wishing Girl"
You brought me back when I was lost and confused
But it's all that I knew
It's all that I knew
Had blurred vision from all my head wounds
A victim of my own stubbornness
A life I almost missed
NEW FOUND GLORY
"Blurred Vision", Makes Me Sick
Stubbornness and an obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.
JOHN LOCKE
attributed, John Locke: Prophet of Common Sense
Now the toughest hide grows on a mule
Cause he's a bulky stubborn fool
He likes to look at you and glare
An never even move a hair
But when his muscles start to twitch
An when his tail begins to swish
That mule ain't bothered with an itch ... fly trouble
buzz buzz buzz goes that busy little pest
buzz buzz buzz that mule can't get no rest
HANK WILLIAMS
"Fly Trouble", Kaw-Liga and Other Humorous Songs
Stubbornness means you are not fluid to the changing circumstances of reality.
ADAM RAY
The Golden Light Path
All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone
The only use some people make of their will power is to support their won't power.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn.
BRYCE C. ANDERSON
The Improbable Rise of Singularity Girl
Avarice and stubbornness -- converge into stupidity.
THE RED CHORD
"Like a Train Through a Pigeon", Fused Together in Revolving Doors
While stubbornness definitely has a negative connotation in the English language, I think it is closely linked with persistence, and perhaps this is why it is so common among my peers. We are stubborn because we care, because we try, because we push ourselves to learn more and to do better.
JULIE PLUMMER
"The pros of being stubborn", Stanford Daily Grind, May 11, 2017
If you believe that stubbornness without reflection Is a virtue, you are thinking crookedly.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus the Tyrant
The tragedy of stubbornness is that, while on the one hand it saves the inner life, on the other hand it makes it impossible to live it.
YVONNE M. AGAZARIAN
"Development and the systems-centred group", Ring of Fire: Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy
A stubborn woman is a stubborn woman. Like a stone, she wouldn't move except by superior force.
BOGOMIL DUBROVNIK
Seven Keys to Hell
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.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice