No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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.
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.
How much must I overcome before I triumph?
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
