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• Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

  Kim Clijsters

  Sports, Athlete, People

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• I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Giving Up, Yelling

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

  Robert Breault

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Self Esteem

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• God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Scent, Mules

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Giving Up, Confused, Struggle

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• I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Inspiration, Thinking

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• He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.

  Paul Auster

  Glad To Be Alive, Littles, Facts

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

  Neil Peart

  Role Models, Choices, Age

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• Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

  Simon R. Green

  Running, Good Sense

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• To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Media, Waiting, Want

  Speech at Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, England, 10 Oct. 1980 See Christopher Fry 1

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• I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mother, Father, Made

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Believe, Effort

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• The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Inspiration, Secret, Clear

  Orhan Pamuk (2007). “Other Colors”, p.523, Vintage

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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• I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

  William Gibson

  America, Interesting, People

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Thinking, Long, Age

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• Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness 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 it’s 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

  Determination, Skills, Mind

  Stephen R. Donaldson (1982). “The One Tree”, Del Rey

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• The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, He Man, Compelled

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• Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

  Tony Dungy

  Virtue, Ifs

  Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (2014). “Building Your Team”, p.74, NavPress

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• Stubbornness is not firmness.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Firmness

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• The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Weak Man, Stubborn

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

  Oswald Chambers

  Earthquakes, Come Up, Hard

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• If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Ignorant, Stubborn

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• It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

  Sophia Amoruso

  Entrepreneur, Special, Succeed

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.38, Penguin

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