Definition of Stubborn

Stubborn

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.

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Stubborn Quotations

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
Sugar Ray Leonard

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.
Mila Kunis

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
Gregory Peck

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris West

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
Anna Paquin

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
David Antin

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
Boris Spassky

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
Herbie Mann

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
Scott Stapp

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

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Hugh Leonard

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
Natasha Henstridge

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
Frances Farmer

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
Ann Bancroft

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
Alexander Herzen

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Stubborn Translations

stubborn in Dutch is halsstarrig, hardnekkig, koppig
stubborn in Latin is pertinax, pugnax
stubborn in Spanish is cabezudo, terco
stubborn in Swedish is envis

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