{"quotes":[{"text":"Stubbornness is a weapon.People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened—be it dignity, honor, pride, desires, etc. If loaded with righteous resolve, stubbornness can assist in overcoming obstacles and achieving great feats; however, more often than not it is loaded with anger, used as a means of destruction for both the possessor and those whom he turns his weapon upon. It is best utilized by wise individuals who are able to dispassionately perceive if their stubbornness will accomplish good, or if it should be put away and replaced by a humble substitute to spare the lives of everyone affected.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["headstrong","obstinacy","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","stubborn","stubbornness"],"id":16228,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"In the time before Gnan (time before 1958 when Dada Bhagwan got manifested) there was obstinacy within me. ‘I’ discovered that obstinacy does not let the light of Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) to come through. Then I saw all that obstinacy, and it was destroyed. Thereafter the Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) manifested. One has to observe one’s own self that where lies the obstinacies. The Self is an observatory itself.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["dada-bhagwan","gnan","knowledge","knowledge-of-the-self","obstinacy","obstinate","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":18877,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["liberation","moksh","moksha","obstinacy","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":56951,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["insist","insistence","obstinacy","obstinate","spiritual","spiritual","tenacity"],"id":73837,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Your obstinacy towards your goals gives you ignition which leads to your success.","author":"omer dar","tags":["goals","motivational","obstinacy","success"],"id":120325,"author_id":"omer+dar"},{"text":"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.","author":"Bernard Barton","tags":["obstinacy"],"id":125085,"author_id":"Bernard+Barton"},{"text":"When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice.' ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You.","author":"Angelica Hopes","tags":["bigot","misjudgement","obstinacy","prejudice"],"id":144484,"author_id":"Angelica+Hopes"},{"text":"Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["doggedness","madness","obstinacy","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","stubborn","stubbornness"],"id":198235,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his better instincts and their excessive demands. I only then understood that he had quit his job not merely because he was fearful of what awaited us down the line should we agree like the others to be relocated, but because, for better or worse, when he was bullied by superior forces that he deemed corrupt it was his nature not to yield--in this instance, to resist either running away to Canada, as my mother urged our doing, or bowing to a government directive that was patently unjust. There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty And Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.","author":"Philip Roth","tags":["ethics","fair-play","fairness","instincts","morals","mores","obstinacy","standards"],"id":210289,"author_id":"Philip+Roth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}