quotes about Stubbornness
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When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
-- Henri Matisse -
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
-- Jack GilbertSource : Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf
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In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
-- Jon KrakauerSource : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.59, Pan Macmillan
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A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
-- Lauren Conrad -
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
-- Neil Gaiman -
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.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
-- Robert Breault -
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It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
-- Rumer GoddenSource : RUMER GODDEN (1961). “China Court”
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Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.
-- Simon R. Green -
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
-- Suzanne Curchod -
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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.
-- Tracy MorganSource : "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.
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I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.
-- Diego Simeone