obstinate

OB'STINATE, a. [L. obstinatus.]

1. Stubborn; pertinaciously adhering to an opinion or purpose; fixed firmly in resolution; not yielding to reason, arguments or other means.

I have known great cures done by obstinate resolutions of drinking no wine.

No ass so meek, no ass os obstinate.

2. Not yielding or not easily subdued or removed; as an obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions; an obstinate cough.

Scriptures:

1 Nephi 20:4

• Book of Mormon

And I did it because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 

Isaiah 48:4

• Old Testament

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 

Deuteronomy 21:18

• Old Testament

¶If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 

Deuteronomy 21:20

• Old Testament

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 

Psalms 78:8

• Old Testament

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 

Proverbs 7:11

• Old Testament

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 

Judges 2:19

• Old Testament

And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. 

Quotes:

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton 

 

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Robert Louis 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

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

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Herbie Mann 

(I don't know about this quote.....???)

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

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Personal Deffinition:

Well, after doing this, I now know that I am Obstinate. Sigh. Yeah...I probably should work on that.....

 To be Obstinate I think means to be stubborn (I used that as another reference) and it means to be selfish and foolish. I thought it was kind of cool because a lot of scriptures referenced to the "son" or the "child" of the home like in

Deuteronomy 21:18

• Old Testament

¶If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 

 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto ^athe gate of his place;

 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

So yeah. I think being obstinate is like being greedy and drunk and blind to the true meaning of happieness. I think the dwarfs in Narnia (the last battle) were very obstinate. They didn't even try to see it in a different way or from someone elses point of view. 

Obstanate means to also be rebellious, and to go against, or to be unyeilding or willing to change. 

It all about selfishness.