Obstinacy Quotes

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. - Laurence Stern

The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients. - Proverb

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

The enemy was too strong for me, but he was severely punished for his obstinacy. His casualties were more than quadruple mine. - John Buford

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

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. - John Erskine

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. - Robert Peel

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. - Man Ray

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. - Ambrose Bierce

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. - Arthur Schopenhauer