Toussaint Louverture

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Haitian Leader

Craig Brown

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.

English Critic

Philip Roth

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

American Novelist

Robert Peel

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

English Leader

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

American Clergyman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

American Author

Laurence Sterne

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

Irish Novelist

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

German Philosopher

Man Ray

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

American Photographer

Thomas Browne

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

British Scientist

Often implies a judgmental view of someone's refusal to change or compromise.

Negative Connotation

Can suggest frustration or disapproval when describing someone's actions.

Emotional Charge

Sometimes seen as a character trait, which might be admired or criticized depending on context.

Personal Quality

Highlights resistance to advice, opinion, or instruction, often leading to tension.

Resistance Implication

May indicate a deeper conflict or disagreement in a person or group.

Signals Conflict

 I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism."

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