9 Obstinacy Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. Arthur Schopenhauer

Result Will Forcing Obstinacy Intellect Itself Place

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. Craig Brown

Way Those Out Hat Wearing Touch Blazer Self-Consciousness Like Obstinacy Bowler Pinch Camp Persist Who Even

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself. Edmund White

Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency. John C. Calhoun

Wise Consistency Way Circumstances Would Would-Be Folly Obstinacy Policy Unwise Persist Same Expedient Controlled May Essentially Different Might Certain Acting Measures Necessarily Consequently

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Sterne

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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. Thomas Browne

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