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Quotes about Obstinacy

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
— William Hazlitt
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
— Oswald Chambers