Stubborn Quotes - Page 6

• The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

  William Muir

  Enemy, Islam, Liberty

  "The Life of Mahomet: From Original Sources".

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Firsts, Christ

  8 Copy quote

• How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

  Celestine Sibley

  Achievement, Advice, Secret

  Celestine Sibley (1975). “Day by Day with Celestine Sibley”, Doubleday Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Yield, Manipulation, Facts

  4 Copy quote

• The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Children

  18 Copy quote

• A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Responsibility, Building Up

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Use, Appropriate, Describe Myself

  Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

  Kobe Bryant

  Team, Athlete, Trying

  4 Copy quote

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

  Kelly Clarkson

  Thinking, Loyal, Texan

  4 Copy quote

• One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Effort, Style, Literature

  5 Copy quote

• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Michael Haneke

  Patience, And Love, Want

  7 Copy quote

• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

  10 Copy quote

• Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

  Joe Nichols

  Determination, Ignorance, People

  7 Copy quote

• Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Strong, Thinking, Tunnels

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

  ASAP Rocky

  New York, Eye, People

  "Thinking Globally, Rapping Locally" by Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2011.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Spiritual, Time, Opportunity

  66 Copy quote

• Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Liberty, Gold, Noses

  8 Copy quote

• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

  Oliver Goldsmith (1792). “The Good Natured Man: A Comedy”, p.28

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

  Scott Stapp

  Relationship, Uprising, Trying

  9 Copy quote

• There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Soulmate, Laughter

  9 Copy quote

• ...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

  Isabel Allende

  Heart, Love Is, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

  Hunter Lovins

  Parent, Trying, Directors

  6 Copy quote

• God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.

  Henry Scougal

  Blessing, Long, World

  Henry Scougal (2013). “The Life of God in the Soul of Man”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Soul, Changing Your Life, Easier

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source