Top 545 Stubborn Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
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.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
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.
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.
The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
All many be well.
I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.
I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.
I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.
I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.
Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)
You know, I'm a man, and men are proud and stubborn. We don't go running to the doctor when something's wrong. We let it play out a little bit.
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.
I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.
I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.
Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.
You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.
There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.
This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.
The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.
You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.
Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
Being stubborn is not an asset. You have to be able to see things through other people's eyes.
I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.
I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.
I look stern because I've got high cheekbones and a pointy nose, and a lot of my characters have been quite stubborn.
I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.
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.
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
