Quotes about Stubbornness

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.

The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.

Sometimes, according to the Bible, God even moves in the hearts of some people to act stubbornly.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.

Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

ADAMANT  (A'DAMANT)   n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.