39 Quotes About Stubbornness

Dealing with irrational behavior and stubbornness can lead to feelings of frustration. These quotes about stubbornness capture of these types of challenges.

“A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.”

“As the facts change, change your thesis. Don’t be a stubborn mule, or you’ll get killed.”

“Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.”

“Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it.”

“Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it’s the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what’s the point of having religion if you can’t disapprove of other people?”

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of
facts and evidence.”

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”

“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

“I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I’m very stubborn.”

“I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.”

“I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.”

“I think people assume I’m perfect. I’m not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I’m stubborn.”

“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”

“I’m a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I’m sure it has hindered me at times as well, but not too many times. I know that if I set my mind to do something, even if people are saying I can’t do it, I will achieve it.”

“I’m not going to change; I’m very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.”

“I’m stubborn; I know what I want. I’ll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.”

“In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.”

“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”

“Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.”

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

“Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.”

“Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.”

“Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.”

“One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.”

“Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won.”

“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”

“Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.”

“Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you’re going to be thinking tomorrow.”

“The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.”

“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”

“To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.”

“When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.”

“When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.”

“Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”

“You don’t stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.”

Sometime your biggest enemy can be yourself. Depending upon your ability to be rational and listen, you may prove to be the biggest barrier you have to cross in life.