Top 125 Obstinate Quotes & Sayings

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

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

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

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

I am obstinate and I will not give in.

resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one wants to cede their selfhood to a group, right? And yet no one can exactly live outside the group, either. Even the most obstinate survivalist probably lives in some telepathic communion with all the other obstinate survivalists out there in the woods.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

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

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.