Unyielding Attitude Quotes

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

You cannot possibly persuade people that what they have firmly in mind is not so.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions.

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

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel."

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

He [Lord Rosebery] would not stoop [to common politics]; he did not conquer.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I have refused to bend under the constant drumbeat and media attention.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.

Those who never retract their opinions, love themselves more than they love truth.

It is in the uncomprisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma that the danger lies.

I do not intend to step aside at anyone's request.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

If I'm open, I'm shooting.