Stubborn Quotations

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.

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.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality.

My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Ultimately, industry adaptation is helped by higher crude, insofar as fares will continue moving higher, labor costs lower, and at some point even the most stubborn (airlines) may see the need to decelerate.

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

We're still going to be stubborn about that.

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

In the Keys, a lot of people are stubborn.

Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

I was incredibly stubborn.

When we started the year, the markets were reticent to buy into either a strong U.S. economy or the Fed raising rates to 5 percent. What has changed is the market's very stubborn resistance to accepting the fact that the dollar has a pretty high carry compared to the rest of the world.

She is so stubborn -- in a way that is the highest compliment I can give a player. She wasn't going to let anyone take this game from her because she wanted it that much.

No one has ever found the Lord through stubborn mindedness.

On offense, we'll score a lot of points. We'll make our opponents respect our quarterback's learning ability, and make them guard sideline to sideline. Defensively, we're going to make them hurt. If they want to run, and be stubborn there, we're going to match up with them.

If they continue to be stubborn with their aggression, we will attack them with all they have, ... No one will be safe except for those who surrender to us on the battlefield.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: / Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; / And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

I don't think of myself as a stubborn person. I am here doing a job to the best of my ability.

He was a little bit stubborn early on, but as the season progressed, we worked with him, and his work ethic got better as the season went on. He started to buy into the role that we assigned to him, and he really improved and came on strong at the end of the year.

He has a different way of dealing with things and people, but he has demonstrated he can be very stubborn in his decisions. When he decides something, he definitely goes forward.

He has instilled this, 'This is who you are, stick with it, be stubborn with it' approach. The sinker was working great. As long as I don't try to do too much with it, it is always there.

He loved his home. He loved his daughters. And he loved me. He was very stubborn but very fair and honest.

The pace was such in the first half that we assumed we were going to struggle in the second half. We tried to take care of that through substitutions, but it's hard to do in soccer because then you begin compromising the rhythm of the game. We could see that. We could see that our pace and our work rate in the first half was so high. We were not only frustrating the opponents, I thought we were also being very stubborn in the middle of the field.

He kept telling me he's ready. But I'm a stubborn old coach.

It is disappointing that a stubborn minority of pupils, estimated at 8,000 in just 4% of secondary schools, remain determined to jeopardise their education and their futures through persistent truancy. While the causes of truancy are complex and challenging, we will focus on this minority who are responsible for much of unauthorised absence.

That was him being less stubborn and making some changes he needed to make at the plate.

Well, dad wasn't feeling well and it's just the same stuff, just tried to go out there and hopefully make his spirits a little better. Just trying to make him understand that I love him dearly and want him to hang in there and keep fighting, which he always does. He's a very stubborn man, which is good.

We are not stubborn and we are the people. Our priority must be how this benefits the country.

Yeah. But I won't do it. I'm a stubborn NPR guy.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Stubborn, snarly male.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

We were ... not surprised but disappointed by the very stubborn and obdurate reaction we encountered in Belgrade,

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

Both sides are going to have to have a conciliatory frame of mind and a willingness to meet half way; you cannot dig your feet in. If both sides are stubborn as a Billy goat, nothing's going to be done.

Through their stubborn mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded, they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

With his stubborn mind, he begs, and grabs, and annoys those who give.

Cooley and I have been together for 20 years now. It hasn't exactly been an overnight success, ... We're the poster children for stubborn persistence.

The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

The thing that kills people isn't so much the wind, ... It's the storm surge. I'm worried that on that peninsula that sticks out into the ocean, there's going to be grave loss of life. There are a lot of stubborn Cajuns down there who will say, We've never evacuated before,' and they're going to be on their rooftops. I'm really worried about Gulfport and Biloxi, (Miss.), too.'

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,

That time is now. Management's continued intransigence at the negotiating table requires an appropriate response to a continued inappropriate and stubborn behavior.