152 Quotes About Stubbornness

What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval?  I'm someone.  I approve.  So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!

As long as we insist on hanging on to our hate, the world will not know peace.

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.

I am not stubborn, I am determined.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

We think that digging the well means that we don’t need to rely on the God Who created the spring. Either way, He created the water in both.

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself, feels liberating. I started to believe that the universe was conspiring to help me finish my house, sending people along at the right moment.

Sometimes we don’t have the answer because it’s less about getting the answer and more about our unwillingness to acknowledge that we don’t have it and God does.