Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won – Anon.
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? – English Proverb
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel
…there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I – Maya Angelou
Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. – Aristotle
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what youre going to be thinking tomorrow. – Glen Beaman
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. – Simone de Beauvoir
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. – Sir Thomas Browne
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – Edmund Burke
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. – Alexander Cannon
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. – John C. Granville
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. – W. Somerset Maugham
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. – Michel de Montaigne
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own. – John Wooden
