Top 1200 Being Stubborn Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.

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

I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

Marriage is a very difficult thing and sometimes everyone can be a bit stubborn; it is what it is.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.

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

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

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

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

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

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.

I can be very stubborn, cold, strict, rigid, and - I'd like to think - driven.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

I'm stubborn; once I start something, I want to see how far I can go.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.

The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.

Sometimes I can be a little bit I don't know, stubborn or something. Maybe to a fault.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.

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

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

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

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

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

I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

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

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.