Stubborn Quotes

• The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

  Immanuel Kant

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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

  Anna Paquin

  People, Done, Trouble

  "Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer Interview True Blood Season 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 01, 2011.

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• The brave are always stubborn

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Brave

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

  Louis Nizer

  Odds, Faces, Succeed

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• Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Wells, Knows

  Song: Heroes and Thieves, Album: Heroes & Thieves, 2007

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• Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

  Willie Aames

  Use, Good Things, Depends

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• I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Persistence, Fire

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

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Character, Nfl

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• Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Love You, Trust Yourself, Persist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

  Steven Pressfield

  Dumb, Quitting

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Patriotic, Law

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

  Barbra Streisand

  Pain, Gun, Men

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• Stubbornness destroys good advice.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Advice

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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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• Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Alexander Herzen

  Pieces, World, Tradition

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• Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Statistics

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

  Mila Kunis

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• We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Vision, Details

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• A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Littles, Temper

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Doctor, &c. ...”, p.14

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Learning, Forget The Past

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Time, Intelligent, Way

  "Early Poems".

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