Quotes about Inflexibility
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
When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.
— Max Lucado
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
— Isaiah 48:4
When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.
— Thomas Watson
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.
— Frank Peretti
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau
But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
— 2 Kings 17:40
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
— William Osler
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner.
— Charles Dickens