168 Quotes About Stubborn

The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I’m choosing to stand up taller. I’ll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I’ll never stay on the ground.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it.

Did you ever try to stop that girl when she's running? I'd have more luck roping the wind.

So you won't help me." She didn't bother to hide her anger. Anger felt a lot better than guilt or shame."I am helping you.""Are you? Remind me to thank you later." She started toward the door.

...When I set my mind on something I am a force to be reckoned with. Today I will be gravity - subtle, but powerful and undeniable.

Freddie once told me that I was the worst kind of stubborn-because I wasn't stubborn at all. I was patient. Patient, but determined. A stubborn person could be distracted, or tricked. But not me. I just held on and on and on, never giving up until I got my way, long after everyone else stopped caring.

Because we're getting to know each other, and you're stubborn and cantankerous and moody and difficult.

As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We’re not specially courageous, we’re just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.)