I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
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.
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.
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.
