Definition of Stubborn

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Stubborn

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.

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Stubborn Quotations

Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John

Stubborn Translations

stubborn in Dutch is halsstarrig, hardnekkig, koppig
stubborn in Latin is pertinax, pugnax
stubborn in Spanish is cabezudo, terco
stubborn in Swedish is envis

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