#Stubbornness Quotes

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

“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.”

“The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”

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

“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.”

“You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I spoke to ears that refused to hear.”

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

“The unyielding army will not win.”

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

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

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

“Perverseness is your whole defence.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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