168 Quotes About Stubborn

Be stubborn in the pursuit of your passion

If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.

Real victory is based on surrender to the right things, while failure is based on the unwillingness to surrender to anything.

When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that.

Do I forget, or do I refuse to remember?

This is where Jean's stubbornness and, perhaps, God's stubborn grace came into play. “My definition of grace would be multifaceted, but part of it would certainly be God's passion for brokenness. He does, he really does love brokenness,” Jean told me. “Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

I think that there’s some thread of stubbornness that runs within us that says that the greater the tragedy the less we are willing to let it stand. And that’s one reason why I believe in our ability to take the tragedy of a world gone astray and knock the legs out from under it.

How is digging a hole part of the process of getting out of one? The fact is, the people who can answer that question are so far down some hole that they couldn’t hear the question even if you shouted it.

She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.