Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will
Alexander MacLaren
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
Plato
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
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
Edgar Watson Howe
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
George Eliot
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has n (Quote by - resource, and the first wound is mortal.
Thomas Paine
That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
John Erskine
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
François de la Rochefoucauld
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James