Stubborness Quotes & Sayings

There are only two people in your life, when you think of them, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them. — Robert Black

If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I'd rule the world. — Sara Raasch

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

Anne, look here. Can't we be good friends?"
For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert's hazel eyes was something that was very good to see. Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat. But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination. That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday. Gilbert had called her "carrots" and had brought about her disdain before the whole school. Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly. She hated Gilbert Blythe! She would never forgive him! — L.M. Montgomery

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. — Chuck Noll

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things. — Shannon L. Alder

Stubborness isn't a choice, it's a way of life. — G.R. Matthews

I only know how to be one thing. And that's me. Take it or leave it. I don't really give a shit. — Peter Cimino

You can't fundamentally change a person, and some actions are certainties, doomed to be repeated. If fate exists, then it pertains only to people. The fact that we are stubborn is often our undoing. — Ryan Daff

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go. — Tim Fargo

Hard-hearted shouldn't need senses. — Toba Beta

at his office while he was in Los Angeles. David was certain — Karen Kingsbury

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. — Sigmund Freud

I'm not squeezing the balls. That's not part of my process. — Tom Brady

Stubborness is believing in yourself when nobody else does. — Silvio Micali

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power. — Peter McWilliams

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. — Lydia Lunch

We live in a society where people feel they have to be right, no matter what. If we subscribe to that narrow view, the critical gray area is compromised. — Carlos Wallace

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad. — Shailene Woodley

Never try to outstubborn a cat. — Robert A. Heinlein

Are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising - or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. It's only as good as the skill of its user, and its not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something special - something more than you can do for yourself - you can't use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that's free to not be what you had in mind. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own. — John Wooden

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things
from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. — Toba Beta

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words. — Neil Gaiman

This-our love for each other-was the most sacred of things my hearts had ever known. And I was willing to do whatever it took to preserve it. — Nely Cab

Ottes die for anything, but while I was in there," she nodded at the gently flowing river, "I felt for a brief moment what freedom might taste like."- Sari — Ray Anyasi

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations. — Maria V. Snyder

Dare to change the world
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubborness that defies chaos and disillusionment. — Gioconda Belli

People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone. — Eknath Easwaran

Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am I to stop you? But if the solitude you're so desperately clinging to ever starts to get too dull and lonely, just let me know. — Sorcha MacMurrough

Art is everywhere. — A.D. Posey

Pushiness is always at war with stubborness. — Toba Beta

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. — Anne Bronte