Stubbornness Quotes

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics,

...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. ISaid in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou, As quoted in Reel

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries

Jonathan Swift

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

John C. Granville

Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won

Anon.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.

Glen Beaman

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Herman Melville

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Stubborness we deprecate,Firmness we condone,The former is our neighbors trait,The latter is our own.

John Wooden

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Michel de Montaigne

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics o

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

English Proverb

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Neil Gaiman