Top 120 Stubbornness Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.
Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
Stubbornness destroys good advice.
I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.
I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
My stubbornness of wanting this fighting career has saved me.
Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.
I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.
The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.
Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.
I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.
Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?
If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.
People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.
The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.
It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.