Being Stubborn Quotes

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

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Stubborn, Bad Things

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• Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

  Willie Aames

  Use, Stubborn, Good Things

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• I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Father, Son

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Stubborn

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• 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.

  Alexander Herzen

  Pieces, Stubborn, World

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Character, Nfl

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• But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Time, Intelligent, Stubborn

  "Early Poems".

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• Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

  Michael Dorris

  Sleep, Ideas, Grandparent

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Guests”

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• Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Stubborn

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• Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

  Thanhha Lai

  Mistake, Stubborn, Fluent

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• The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Stubborn, Matter

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stubborn, Opinion

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• 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: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Patriotic, Law

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.

  Shane Bunting

  Rap, Kids, Years

  Source: 411mania.com

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• During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

  Marlee Matlin

  Father, Grandmother, California

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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