#stubborn

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#atrocious #devoted #effort #fanatical #only

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

— Josiah Royce

#deprive #i #ideas #means #merely

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:"I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes. ↗

— Jim Anderson

#confidence #family #fault #following #honor

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#retort #sarcasm #stubborn #superpower #humor

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment. ↗

— Dieter F. Uchdorf

#heartache #resentment #stubbornness #life

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. ↗

— Toba Beta

#damant #different #eccentric #life #perception

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. ↗

— King Albert II

#endangered #fills #imposes #independence #itself