25 Quotes About Obstinacy

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.

Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.

Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit; it is known as obstinacy. Flowing egoism is dramatic egoism. It is not problematic.

Moreover, vulgar and casual opinions are something more than nothing in nature; and he who will not suffer himself to proceed so far, falls, peradventure, into the vice of obstinacy, to avoid that of superstition.

If you use obstinacy against obstinacy in this world; you will never come up with a solution. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about the solution.