Quotes about Stubbornness

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

But the idea of America, the promise of America: this I clung to with a stubbornness that surprised even me. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"—that was my America. The America Tocqueville wrote about, the countryside of Whitman and Thoreau, with no person my inferior or my better; the America of pioneers heading west in search of a better life or immigrants landing on Ellis Island, propelled by a yearning for freedom.

But the idea of America, the promise of America: this I clung to with a stubbornness that surprised even me. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"—that was my America.

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

From disappointment, I gradually ascended the emotional ladder to haughty indignation, and finally to that state of stubbornness where the mind is locked like the jaws of an enraged bulldog.

The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.