Headstrong Quotes

“Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves

“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that.”
― Claire Wong, The Runaway

“You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know.
And I may do it, if I so choose.
You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh?
I shall do it, since you refuse!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“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.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Headstrong is just a word--a word others call you when you don't do what they want.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves

“We live in a society where people feel they have to be right, no matter what. If we subscribe to that narrow view, the critical gray area is compromised.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Never underestimate a determined woman!”
― Nyki Mack

“...When I set my mind on something I am a force to be reckoned with. Today I will be gravity - subtle, but powerful and undeniable.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tilt

“Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.”
― Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6

“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst? There is an invisible pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens it.”
― Bianca Olthoff

“Do not contemplate you as the man of my head, I rather do not contemplate you even as the mane of my hair”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Indeed, my fear is that my overbearing, self-willed ways may have given you a distaste of me which not all my future efforts may serve to eradicate.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow

“If she had listened to her father, if she had listened to the cousin's husband, she would never have married Note and the years of unhappiness would never have occurred. But they did, because she was headstrong, as everyone is at the age of twenty, and when we simply cannot see, however much we may think we can . The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 10 Books Set

“Dear God,
Teach me how to forgive, even when I have done nothing wrong.
Help me to be just and wise always,
Instead of combative and headstrong.”
― Charmaine J. Forde