Quotes about stubbornness

His will stands unmoved. The falling tears are futile.

He stands immovable by tears,

Nor tenderest words with pity hears.

All men are liable to err; but when an error hath been made, that man is no longer witless or unblest who heals the ill into which he hath fallen, and remains not stubborn.

If some people hadn't felt obliged to repeat what is untrue simply because they had at one point maintained it, they would have turned into quite different people.

Only the final choice would require a human decision: enter the Link, or decline to do so? It occurred to Chan that perhaps this was the choice that humans were least qualified to make. He recognized in himself the tendency to say, we’ve come so far, we can’t possibly change our minds now. People following that philosophy died climbing mountains, they signed disastrous contracts, they flew into hurricanes, and they embarked on lifelong commitments to the wrong mates. Perhaps they headed to the stars for the same reason.

But somewhere along the way he had made up his mind and set it in concrete. Changed circumstances would not budge him.

There's a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid.

Obsession is just what those too timorous to follow an idea through to its logical conclusion call determination.

I beg to differ, as those who are right have always begged to differ from those who are wrong but refuse to admit it.

There is rarely an exception: once a cat makes up her mind to do something, your pleadings matter not at all. A dog, in the same circumstances, no matter how urgently he needs to do something, will change his mind if you insist. He is made for compromise, for self-sacrifice, for thinking about how you feel. Not cats.

Some people, though—some people think yelling something loud enough makes it so.

You can’t get along with somebody who’s bound and determined not to get along with you.