Stubborn Quotes - Page 7

• 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

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• And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girl, Falling In Love, Boys

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Humility, Artist

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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• This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

  Patricia McCormick

  Life, Believe, Affliction

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• 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

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• ...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

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• Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

  Jon Pareles

  Artist, Imagination, Ego

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• and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  World, Facts

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.200, Penguin

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• I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

  Maya Banks

  Way, Stubbornness, My Way

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• 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

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• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Beauty, Giving

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• I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Fighting, Talking

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Knowledge, Thinking

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, White, Eggs

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• There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

  Mark Twain

  Strong, Fighting, Land

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.74, Univ of California Press

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• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

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• Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Life, Determination, Yoga

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• Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

  Vicki Baum

  Night, Men, Worry

  Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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

  Cleveland Amory

  Acceptance, Facts, Duchess

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• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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

  William Shakespeare

  Liberty, Gold, Noses

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• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

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

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• 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

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• This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

  George Crabbe

  Wise, Kings, Selfish

  George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29

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• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Dream, Wisdom

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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