Quotes about Stubbornness

When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.

The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.

Sometimes, according to the Bible, God even moves in the hearts of some people to act stubbornly.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.

Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!