152 Quotes About Stubbornness

I never cared about God when life was sailin' in the calm, So I said I'd get my head down and I'd deal with the ache in my heart.

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

Wow…At least I can rest assured that you definitely can’t read my mind,” I remarked. “Clearly you know nothing about me…because the surest way to keep me from doing something is to tell me I have no other choice.

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff