Stubbornness Quotes

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

I think I was born stubborn, that's all.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

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

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

The unyielding army will not win.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.