Obstinacy quotes

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◆ EGO, three letters that hold you back from saying things your heart is dying to say like, I love you, I miss you and I am sorry.

- 100

◆ I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge99

◆ A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

- John Dryden99

◆ Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

- Suzanne Curchod Necker99

◆ They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

- Edmund Burke99

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe99

◆ Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

- Bernard Barton99

◆ The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

- Henry Ward Beecher99

◆ A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

- Edgar Watson Howe99

◆ Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good

- Thomas Browne Sr99

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

- Man Ray99

◆ Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

- Robert Peel99

◆ He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

- Margot Asquith99

◆ Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.

- Alexander MacLaren99