Stubbornness Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Stubborness we deprecate,
  Firmness we condone,
  The former is our neighbors trait,
  The latter is our own.

  John Wooden

  Neighbor, Firmness, Latter

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Views

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• Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Thinking, Sickness

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.288, A&C Black

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• This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Spring, Heart

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• They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Time, Strong, Belief

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.14, Odyssey Editions

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• Stubbornness destroys good advice.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Advice

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Effort, Style, Stubborn

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Pessimism, Results

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

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• There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Regret, Pride, Vanity

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• We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

  Jack Gilbert

  Acceptance, World, Ruthlessness

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf

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• It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Joy, Host, Disaster

  Michel de Montaigne (1995). “Four Essays”, Penguin Group USA

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• [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Triumph, Inappropriate

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• And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry.

  Dorothy Allison

  Appreciation, Children, Mean

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.14, Penguin

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• Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Littles, Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.257, Macmillan

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• We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.

  Sylvia Day

  Determination, Fighting, Perfection

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.292, Penguin

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• You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said. "And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table. Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.

  Jill Shalvis

  Mean, Perfection, Resilience

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

  Maya Banks

  Stubborn, Way, My Way

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• As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving Up, Integrity, Educational

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• When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Funny, Willpower

  "Matisse on art".

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• I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

  Diego Simeone

  Believe, Luck, Capacity

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• A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Purpose, Facts

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• D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Mind, Lightning, Research

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• By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

  Yvor Winters

  Practice, Identity, Body

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Men, Worst

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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