Stubborn Quotes - Page 3

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

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

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.