Stubborn Quotes

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

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

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.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

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

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

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

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

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

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

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

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

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

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.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

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

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 proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Facts are stubborn things.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.