Top 90 Stubborn Quotes

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Everything comes from your mind. You have to push yourself to get things going in your direction. If you are stubborn, nothing will help. If you are sad, nothing will help. You have to keep positive and to work very well for your next chance.

There are young guys coming up, trying to make their name off me, and I’m a stubborn dude. I don’t want to let that happen. That’s very motivating.

Maybe I’m just stubborn about learning new things – I can’t stand learning new programs – but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I’m using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.

I have always been a very determined and stubborn person about what I want.

Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I’ve had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

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

I’m pretty stubborn.

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

During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

I’ve always been a real stubborn Latina. I’m a Gemini.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont’s money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They’re both really stubborn. They’re not quitters.

I’m a pretty stubborn guy. I don’t quit too easily.

I am very stubborn.

Facts are stubborn things.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

The planet is heating; the climate is changing. We know this. We have not just one scientist, or two, but thousands screaming this at us at the top of their lungs. And we have a government full of disinterested, stubborn people who are going to cling to their denial and their nonsense.

I’m definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

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

The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can’t just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn’t matter for me.

I’ve always been very driven and am also very stubborn.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can’t do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I’ve always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It’s sometimes stubborn to a fault.

Marriage is a very difficult thing and sometimes everyone can be a bit stubborn; it is what it is.

If you don’t read it, you don’t know. I mean, that’s why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there’s something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I’m not going to change, I’m very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

I’m a wrestler at heart. And, for wrestling, we usually lose as much weight as we can. We’re pretty stubborn. If we say we’re going to do something, we do it. That’s just how wrestlers are. I just felt like I was the bigger, stronger, faster guy at 170. That’s why I did it.

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.

I’ve always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

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.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned… It’s fine for male artists to be angry – they’re encouraged to outwardly express their aggression – but women? I’ve been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I’m blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I’m incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can’t do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father’s nickname for me when I was growing up was ‘Hardhead.’

I’m stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.

I’m a typical Capricorn. I’m hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don’t believe in astrology.

That’s why I kept wrestling – I’m too dumb to realize I can’t win, so I keep wrestling until I ultimately succeed. I’m pretty dang stubborn.

I’m very stubborn. I feel like I’m going to play this season.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

Fat is fat is fat, we lose it evenly all over our bodies, and your stubborn areas will be the last to go.

I think everyone has their roles, and in my opinion, I’m like the young hot boy of OVO: stubborn, very step-out-on-his-own and do-his-own-thing.

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

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

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership – if you’re right about what you’re stubborn about.

My parents weren’t keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

I’m not trying to brainwash my critics. If they’re critics, they’re critics, and that’s their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don’t waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.

In a very general way, our society has fallen out of love with the skilled trades. Part of the problem is a myriad of myths and misperceptions that surround the jobs themselves, but the biggest cause is our stubborn belief that a four-year degree is the best path for the most people.

It’s that stubborn fixation on details that has invariably prevented me from getting excited about celebrating each passing year. Which is why my friends know that doing things such as throwing me surprise parties would only serve to surprise me with an overwhelming sense of panic and anxiety.

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

Sometimes I’m more stubborn than I am smart.

I’m a really competitive guy. I’m a really stubborn guy. That’s what makes me want to take Milwaukee to the top, make Milwaukee a big market team. That’s a goal I’ve set for myself. Hopefully, one day I can achieve it.

They say that I’m stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it’s paid off so far.

If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.

I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

I can be incredibly stubborn and I’m not sure how that reflects in my looks. The family name is German and translates as donkey! If I think I’m right, I hope I don’t seem grumpy.

Stubborn isn’t a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

When you’re young, you’re still trying to find yourself coming into the league. I think Bron was trying to help me with that, but I was so stubborn back then.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

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.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

I’ve always been a stubborn guy and you’ve got to beat me up before I’ll start doing something.

With years, you change. You’re not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.

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

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

I have opinions on everything. I’m a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

I remember having to read ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ and I didn’t want to read it; I didn’t want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

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’m quite stubborn, and it’s hard for me to let people in – whether that’s literally, musically, or with business and work.

I’ve always been a stubborn kid.

Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don’t have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I’m of a personality that I’m a little stubborn, so it’s tough for me.

I’m a stubborn individual.

One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.

I can be quite argumentative and stubborn if I get a bee in my bonnet. I can be quite a pain.

I am stubborn and I am hardheaded.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

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.

The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It’s really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don’t have any regrets, really. I’m quite content. I’m very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.