Stubborn Quotes

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"I think I was born stubborn, that`s all."

- Patricia Neal

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I made very little progress in my lessons, and none at all at games. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude and range my soldiers in line of battle on the nursery floor. The greatest pleasure I had in those days was reading. When I was nine and a half my father gave me `Treasure Island`, and I remember the delight with which I devoured it. My teachers saw me at once backward and precocious, reading books beyond my years and yet at the bottom of the Form. They were offended. They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

- Winston Churchill

If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck, because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense and she knows what she likes.

- Britney Spears

I don`t listen to anybody. Nobody can tell me anything. I`m stubborn. If somebody tells me not to do something, I do it. But I do listen to Madonna. For some reason I listen to her. I know that sounds really silly. It`s nice to have somebody just to ask questions to. She`s a visual artist and a deep artist as well. I like the way she thinks. I wish I could be inside her head. I like Madonna`s carer, and what she`s done with her family.

- Britney Spears

Over and over again I’ve been called a walking oxymoron. I do things that you wouldn’t associate with a good little Christian girl. People say I’m half-boy, half-girl. I love style and dressing up, but I’ve also got competitive testosterone and I’m incredibly stubborn. When I’m going for a jog and I come up behind a guy on his bike, I try to beat him, even if it kills me

- Evangeline Lilly

(On Italian film director Roberto Rossellini) Rossellini was a stubborn, opinionated genius who had total autonomy over all his productions.

- Joan Collins

`Get out of show business.` It`s the best advice I ever got, because I`m so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

- Walter Matthau

When I remember how stubborn I was, how certain my parents didn`t understand me, it scares me a little. You see, I have two boys myself, Michael and Bobbie, Jr., and I wonder how I`ll ever get it across to them, how I`ll ever put it into words when they`re fourteen that I DO understand them. Because my parents are wonderful people, really, and they did understand me; only the connection was lost somewhere along the line, and they couldn`t get it across to me how they felt.

- Robert Walker

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that`s how I am where I am today.

- Natasha Henstridge

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

- Gregory Peck

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it`s OK.

- Mila Kunis

He loved his home. He loved his daughters. And he loved me. He was very stubborn but very fair and honest.

- Patricia Lewis

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

- Elton John

I`m usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don`t back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I`d get so mad I`d go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.

- Josie Maran

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

- Scott Stapp

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

- Frances Farmer

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied

- Louis Untermeyer

They say that I`m stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it`s paid off so far.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

I`m going to be stubborn and stay on the ball. I was more of a pull hitter (last year). It`s not the way I had approached things in the first 10 years, so I don`t know why in my 11th and 12th years I started changing. ... Not this spring.

- Jim Edmonds

I`m stubborn. I have to fight. The studios want to be your partner in the creative process. That`s why I find most of my financing overseas. I don`t let the Money give me notes on my scripts. I don`t allow the Money on the set. I don`t allow the Money in the editing room. These days, even the little independent studios, they act like Hollywood. Some kid is making a movie for $500,000, and they want the final cut. Seems like the squares are taking over everything.

- Jim Jarmusch

I`m proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

- Thomas Kretschmann

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

- Mark Twain

(On why he chooses acting over music) "I think I`d be too stubborn and have to do it on my own terms. There`s a lot of hope in music and there are some really amazing artists out there, but as far as popular music goes, a lot of it is just not for me. So I don`t know where I`d fit in or whatever."

- Paul Dano

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

- John Adams

The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.

- Anton LaVey

If the owners are playing a high-stakes game of chicken, they`d be better off playing it with anybody else in the world besides hockey players. Because of all sports, we`re probably the most stubborn, pig-headed players.

- Scott Walker

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don`t give up.

- Aaron Ambrose

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

- Ahmed Bedier

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

- Aimee Litka

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

- Alain Bauer

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

- Alberto Madrigal

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

- Alejandro Freire

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

- Allayne Barrilleaux

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

- Amber Valletta

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

- Andrew Speedy

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

- Austen Randolph