John Burroughs Quotes

I got a granite chin.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

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

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

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

I have and always will stand my ground.

'Cobra Clutch' was to let the world know we ain't going nowhere. We got the game in the cobra clutch.

So you know, the people that do know me, they know I can be very stubborn.

I'm a stubborn individual.

I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.

I'm not soft at all.

I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

I am not the sort of person who gives up.

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.