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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. — Buddha

Just keep telling me I can't do it. I thrive on being obstinate. — Lori Lesko

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot ... — Napoleon Bonaparte

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. — Martin Heidegger

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. — Alexander Cannon

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. — Jean De La Bruyere

Rebuke

Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression... — Muse

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles. — Albert Einstein

Resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. — Ambrose Bierce

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly. — Joanne Fluke

To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul
That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously. — Sophocles

Grandma said that a skillet's good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man's head. — Lisa Shearin

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. — Oscar Wilde

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over. — Daphne Du Maurier

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. — William Cobbett

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow. — George Eliot

He began to develop an obstinate patience. — William Steig

It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. — Blaise Pascal

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. — Francis Aungier

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. — Mary Shelley

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. — Jerome K. Jerome

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. — Samuel Johnson

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. — Kenneth Clark

To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. — William Shakespeare

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc. — Benigno Aquino III

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle.

He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man. — Charles Dickens

We can compare a life without a goal to an equestrian on an obstinate horse: much movement but little headway — Sunday Adelaja

Obstinate, headstrong girl! — Jane Austen

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. — Agatha Christie

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate. — Rachel Cohn

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. — Alexander Pope

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done. — Rumer Godden

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. — Katharine Whitehorn

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress. — David Harsanyi

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. — Margaret Thatcher

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power ... — Plato

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel De Montaigne

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James

The obstinate miner
of the void
exploits
his fertile mine — Jean Cocteau

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees. — Michel De Montaigne

Let it be virtuous to be obstinate. — William Shakespeare

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs. — Sabine Baring-Gould

When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce

Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments. — Dada Bhagwan

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. — Gabriel Marcel

The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete. — Barbara Kingsolver

Give me your hand," she says. "Which is your best finger?"
"They are all better at different things."
"Don't be obstinate. — Pierce Brown