Obstinacy Quotes
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
"Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
"Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 195), 1896.
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.214, University of Chicago Press
'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”
Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.99, Vintage
John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.101, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
