Charles Gravier Quotes

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

I think I'm very hardheaded.

One of [British General Bernard] Montgomery’s faults is that he was very often right.

... combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system.

The Swiss can be very difficult.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Sometimes I can be a little bit I don't know, stubborn or something. Maybe to a fault.

Nothing outrages and disappoints an extremist more than compromise.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.