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Stubbornness is not firmness.
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.
Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
Bernie Sanders is making a big and potentially dangerous mistake with his continuing insistence on changes to the Democratic Party's rules and platform. I should know. As chairman of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, I understand too well where such ideological stubbornness can lead.