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  • Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  • Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

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

    Effort   Style   Stubborn  
  • The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

    Talking   Voice   Ears  
    Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus
  • There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

  • Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

  • Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

  • Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

    Law   Our Society   Lasts  
    Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.52, Penguin
  • And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

    "Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".
  • 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.

    Strong   Purpose   Facts  
  • Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

    Special   Bows   Faults  
    Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.108, Princeton University Press
  • Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

    Views   Mind   Credit  
  • 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

    Regret   Pride   Vanity  
  • I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

  • 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 (2002). “Trash”, p.14, Penguin
  • I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

    "Veroniva Mars Season 3: Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas talk" by Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. July 18, 2006.
  • Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long timeand it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.My point is that you do not need me or anyone elseThe only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness

  • Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

    Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (2014). “Building Your Team”, p.74, NavPress
  • Weak people can be very stubborn.

    Josephine Tey (1998). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.5, Faber & Faber
  • In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

    Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.71, Open Road Media
  • The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

  • 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.

  • Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

    People   Done   Stubborn  
    "Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer Interview True Blood Season 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 01, 2011.
  • My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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

  • Stubbornness is not firmness.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Long   Age  
  • 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.

    Lying   Home   Views  
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