Obstinacy Quotations | Page 2

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

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

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

How much must I overcome before I triumph?

I know that the French people will understand that we had to act, ... Before the unjustified and incomprehensible obstinacy of President Milosevic, the allies unanimously agreed that there was no other choice than to intervene militarily against targeted Serbian objectives. This in order to contain a tragedy which endangers the stability of the Balkans more and more.