Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will
Alexander MacLaren
That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
John Erskine
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
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.
Charles Palmer
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Voltaire
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Stern
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
Johann Kaspar Lavater