Quotes about Obstinacy

When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

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

If your opinion is sound, and you forego it for the love of God and follow that of another, you will win great merit. I have often heard that it is safer to accept advice than to give it. It may even come about that each of two opinions is good; but to refuse to come to an agreement with others when reason or occasion demand it, is a sign of pride and obstinacy.

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

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.