quotations about stubbornness
Stubbornness is often considered a negative quality, since it implies that someone is unwilling to change for the better. However, in the athletic and entrepreneurial worlds, stubbornness -- here, called focus -- is necessary for success.
DEEP PATEL
"Why Athletes Make Amazing Entrepreneurs", Influencive, June 28, 2017
Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.
MICHAEL CHABON
Telegraph Avenue
Stubborn people are not always strong-headed in their effort to control others, but in their knowingness of what is better for them or the situation. Unless it's a pure act to rebel or hurt the other person, doing what you know is best for yourself isn't a bad thing. In fact, it can be a very healthy act.
SUSAN KOCAB
"Stubbornness Is ... A Good Thing? 5 Reasons Your 'Faulty' Quality Is Actually Beneficial", Elite Daily, September 24, 2014
Art didn't understand that stubbornness is like an addiction -- an addiction to his own thought processes. He was sure that having his way would give him everything he longed for, hoped for, and needed to make him happy.
NANCY MCLOUGHLIN
The Art of Stubbornness
Oh, the worst thing I can think of, of all there is
Is losing your affection 'cause of my stubbornness
But in my defense
I know that I wasn't right
Yeah, I know that I wasn't right
ALLEN STONE
"I Know That I Wasn't Right"
Stubbornness is a self-defeatist attitude that fights back instead of yielding to confrontation and making peace. A stubborn attitude will snuff the flame out of what otherwise can be an unquenchable fire. Put aside the petty and mundane things in life and focus on the great accomplishments that await you.
TREY BOYER
What Are You Waiting For?
Doubt makes me value the
Safety of my distance
Can it be stubbornness to
Which I cling?
If I can I'll pretend I'm
Alright all by myself
I'd rather drown than take
Your hand
REALITY CHECK
"The Way I Am"
Stubbornness is usually the companion of ignorance and pride.
MRS. L. N. RANYARD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Scared of love, love and swimming pools
Stubbornness, I say is for mules
But if you're standing on the edge
You won't hear me because your blood is singing
Jump jump go ahead and jump jump
If it's what your heart is wanting to do
XTC
"Jump"
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
I have been a fairly stubborn person for most of my life. I stick doggedly to arguments that don't always make sense, even when friends have pointed out the logical loopholes in them, and I refuse to eat avocado because I "don't like it" even though the last time I really tried it was in fifth grade.
JULIE PLUMMER
"The pros of being stubborn", Stanford Daily Grind, May 11, 2017
You have the same stubbornness as a hammerhead
Don't need to get into it when every which way is wrong
And every right is your own
CATHY DAVEY
"Hammerhead"