Stubborn Quotes - Page 4

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

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

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

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

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte’s mouth so firmly set into a hard line. “Would you like a thesaurus?” Will inquired. “You seem to be running out of words.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver