Obstinate Quotes

• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men". Book by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233, 1903.

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• A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

  Alexander Cannon

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Mind

  Alexander Cannon (2012). “The Invisible Influence”, p.6, David & Charles

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• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  Edmund Burke

  Failure, Errors, Political

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Pessimism, Stubbornness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Life, Atheism, Hated

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.401, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Education, Philosophy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

  Bernard Barton

  Stupidity, Opinion, Proof

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• Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Opinion, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 195), 1896.

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• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  Barbra Streisand

  Strength, Crazy, Two

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• He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

  Herman Melville

  Devil, Baggage, Thunder

  1851 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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• Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Vanity, Cases

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “The Wrecker: Stevenson's Vol. 19”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Arguing, Spite

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Mistake, Being Different

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• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

  Laurence Sterne

  Perseverance, Names, Causes

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 1, ch. 17

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• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Clever, Literature, Reason

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

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• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Hate, Passion

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• Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

  William James

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.6.

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• Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Global Warming, Obstinacy, Fashionable

  "Empowering girls is about rights, not just economics" by Tanya Barron, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

  Thomas Browne

  Causes, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25

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• She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Real, Bridges, Waiting

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• Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

  John Heywood

  Knowledge, Blind, Deaf

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• Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Mind, Causes

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• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  Man Ray

  Art, Mastery, Genius

  Letter to his sister, as quoted in "Man Ray: American Artist" (1988) by Neil Baldwin, May 18, 1941.

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• Obstinate, headstrong girl!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Prejudice, Headstrong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.187, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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