Quotations on Obstinacy

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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
(Keywords: Perseverance, Difference, Obstinacy, Will)

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
- Robert Peel
(Keywords: Feeling, Folly, Obstinacy, Opinion, Prejudice, Public, Public opinion, Right, Weakness, Wrong)

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
- Man Ray
(Keywords: Genius, Obstinacy, Will)

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Keywords: Intellect, Obstinacy, Result, Will)

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Keywords: Cleverness, Folly, Nothing, Obstinacy, Reason)