Obstinate Quotations

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

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

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

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.

It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous to abide by the principles that impel men to live in society. There are, therefore, three distinct classes of vice and virtue: the religious, the natural, and the political. These three classes should never be in contradiction with one another.

He's an obstinate opportunist. He's become well known for this throughout his career here. He wears it like a badge of honor.

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.

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

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

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

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

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot...

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