Voltaire Quotes

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.

Some people will never change.

It’s stupid, and you can’t fix stupid

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.