Stubborn Quotes

“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“Rather than simply declaring the other person ‘dumb’ or ‘stubborn’, you should try making them comfortable and give them an opportunity to talk about the things that are troubling them.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“He had the air of someone who imagines he can negotiate with gravity.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There comes a point in some conversations where I simply quit and let reality do my talking for me.”
― Dave Pryor

“Do not confuse stubbornness with tenacity, for the former is blind to reason while the latter has no reason to be blind.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.”
― Dean Koontz, Icebound

“A real confidence is born from a fragile heart and a stubborn head”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I don't require any more sleep than you do, sir. If you stay up late, I am capable of doing the same. I also have work to do."
His brows lowered in a forbidding scowl. "Go to bed, Miss Sydney."
Sophia did not flinch. "Not until you do."
"My bedtime has nothing to do with yours," he said curtly, "unless you are suggesting that we go to bed together."
Clearly, the remark was meant to intimidate her into silence.
A reckless reply came to mind, one so bold that she bit her tongue to keep from speaking. And then she thought, Why not? It was time to declare her sexual interest in him... time to advance her plan of seduction one more step.
"All right," she said quickly. "If that is what it takes to make you get the rest you require- so be it."
His dark face went blank. The lengthy silence that ensued was evidence of how greatly she had surprised him. My God, she thought in a flutter of panic. Now I've done it. She could not predict how Sir Ross would respond. Being a gentleman- a notoriously celibate one- he might refuse her proposition. However, there was something in his expression- a flicker in his gray eyes- that made her wonder if he might not accept the impulsive invitation. And if he did, she would have to carry it out and sleep with him. The thought jarred her very soul. This was what she had planned, what she had wanted to achieve, but she was suddenly terrified.
Terrified by the realization of how much she wanted him.
Slowly Sir Ross approached, following as she backed away one step, then another, until her spine was flattened against the door. His alert gaze did not move from her flushed face as he braced his hands on the door, placing them on either side of her head.
"My bedroom or yours?" he asked softly.
Perhaps he expected her to back down, stammer, run away.
Her hands curled into balls of tension. "Which would you prefer?" she parried.
His head tilted as he studied her, his eyes oddly caressing. "My bed is bigger.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Lady Sophia's Lover

“I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I've been told I am a handful . . . not to mention stubborn. Even were I to want a man, not many are up for the job.”
― Michelle Griep, The Captured Bride

“After enough failed attempts to rescue myself, I finally realized that I am my own worst first responder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s less that we’re missing the gift of vision and more that we have the tendency to obstruct it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Careful what you tell yourself, especially if you're stubborn.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Estranged and probably stubborn to a fault. I was my mother's son.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“My spoon was bent so that if I wanted to eat I had to pick the spoon up with my right hand. If I picked it up with my left hand, the spoon bent away from my mouth. I wanted to pick the spoon up with my left hand.”
― Charles Bukowski

“In no way do I want my stubbornness tamed. Rather, I want the whole of it brought into submission to God so that it might be doubled, even tripled in unchecked obedience to His service.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can disagree, but don’t be stubborn to not to understand the other side. Broadening your mind helps you more than being right.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Real victory is based on surrender to the right things, while failure is based on the unwillingness to surrender to anything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My mind never falls in love; however, my heart: Oh, I cannot determine to stop since it stays still as a stubborn and persistent child.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Decisions are stubborn things, but debates about them are pliable.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“I could take a hand in certain household matters," she conceded. "In addition to working as your assistant."
"You propose to do both?" In a gently sardonic tone, he asked, "Don't you think that might be too much work for one person to handle?"
"People say that you do the work of six men," she shot back. "If that is true, I could certainly manage to do the work of two."
"I am not offering you two positions. I am offering only one- that of housekeeper."
Strangely, the authoritative statement made her smile. There was no mistaking the challenge in her eyes, but it was a friendly provocation, as if she knew somehow that he was not about to let her walk away. "No, thank you," she said. "I'll have what I want or nothing at all.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Lady Sophia's Lover

“If the only thing that I can focus on is the conclusion of a matter, there’s a good chance that I haven’t devised a way to bring a conclusion to the matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The two of us... We're from different breeds. Different species, even. I can't pretend to fathom what you're doing with all these animals. However, I doubt you approve of the way I live my life, either."
That was fair to say, she supposed.
"There is, however, one thing we have in common. I'm stubborn as hell, and I'd formed the impression that you don't surrender easily, either. Or was I mistaken?"
"You weren't mistaken."
"It's settled, then." His gaze held her captive. "I'm not giving up, and neither are you.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“It is an affront to shunt to the front. The displaced will grunt and confront with blunt insolence. That’s not a pretty brunt to bear.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Men need a third ear between their eyes if they are to pay more attention to the misery caused by their stubbornness.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it! How little did I then foresee the termination of that chain, of which this may be regarded as the first link?”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

“Well, anyhow, he thought, the French say that bad temper and stubbornness make one live longer, so I may still be around for a while...”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“I think that there’s some thread of stubbornness that runs within us that says that the greater the tragedy the less we are willing to let it stand. And that’s one reason why I believe in our ability to take the tragedy of a world gone astray and knock the legs out from under it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A real confidence is born from a fragile heart with a stubborn head”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar