Top 100 Assertive Quotes
#1. My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said 'Rainbow'.... and I was punished to stand out of my class.
Saket Assertive
#2. It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.
Neal Shusterman
#3. No One is perfect... So don't say I am "No One" for you
Saket Assertive
#4. Don't wait for your employees to seek you out. Choose to be assertive and go to them first.
Barry Banther
#5. Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.
Iris Murdoch
#6. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#7. Why hadn't she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. She didn't have it. She had a sneaky, sly, shy, squamous personality. She had French diseases of the soul.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#8. Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led.
Loretta Reynolds
#9. There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous ... very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.
Evangeline Lilly
#10. I was just trying to open the door ... but the walls fall down
Saket Assertive
#11. Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.
Nikki Rowe
#12. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.
Stephen Richards
#13. If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#14. New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
Jane Pauley
#15. Usually they're carried away by people who are assertive and domineering. The risk with our students is that they're very good at getting their way. But that doesn't mean they're going the right way." If
Susan Cain
#16. Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive
John Edward Williams
#17. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
Oswald Chambers
#18. Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.
James R. Heath
#19. But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.
Soren Kierkegaard
#20. Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche.
Tom Douglas
#21. Captivating to men, Anne was also sharp, assertive, subtle, calculating, vindictive, a power dresser and a power player, perhaps a figure to be more admired than liked.
Eric Ives
#22. Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,
Maggie Nelson
#23. It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#24. What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.
Barbara Kellerman
#25. Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
Timothy Ferriss
#26. The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
Pam Dawber
#28. Calm assertive energy is the energy you project to show your dog you are the Pack Leader. Assertive does not mean angry or aggressive. Calm-assertive means always compassionate, but quietly in control.
Cesar Millan
#29. I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.
Bryan Cranston
#30. The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.
Jim Rohn
#31. Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.
Dean Koontz
#32. I'm a marginally intelligent, selectively confident, assertive woman
Ayisha Malik
#33. His voice was low. Calm, assertive. And she actually turned to face the door before she stopped herself. "Stop woman-whispering me.
Jill Shalvis
#34. To young women, black and white, Baker embodied the possibility of escaping the restrictions that defined conventional femininity. Authoritative yet unassuming, self-confident and assertive, forcing others to take her seriously simply by presuming that they would, Baker was a revelation.
Barbara Ransby
#35. In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.
Herbert Schiller
#36. Inside, cooking smells maneuvered through the house: cow liver, sweet potatoes, stewed onions, cabbage - scents that were as assertive as colors.
Ron Hansen
#37. ('I'm going to be more assertive, if that's all right with you', as Erma Bombeck says), and
Stephen King
#38. For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.
Nathan Huggins
#39. The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word
the note
is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.
Neal Ascherson
#40. Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.
Gordon Ramsay
#41. It was inevitable that the poacher and the counterfeiter would bond, sharing as they did a blanket contempt for government, taxes, homosexuals, immigrants, minorities, gun laws, assertive women and honest work.
Carl Hiaasen
#43. sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. [A]s often happens to assertive women, the men in the federation considered her abrasive, overbearing. They whispered privately that she was 'emotionally volatile' and did not have a 'second gear' in her public manner. Strong men are considered fiery, strong women are volatile.
Jere Longman
#45. Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither of these routes is an honest assertive I want that can lead to a workable compromise of interests to quickly resolve the conflict.
Manuel J. Smith
#46. There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.
Bryan Cranston
#48. The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V.S. Pritchett
#49. The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia
#50. If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
Nathaniel Branden
#51. The way I try to phrase it when I am pressed for time is to say that I am sexually submissive, and socially assertive.
Senta Holland
#52. Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#54. Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.
Olaf Stapledon
#55. In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
Bill Vaughan
#56. Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon Ramsay
#57. The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).
Fritjof Capra
#59. The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
Gerald Vann
#60. Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.
Albert Ellis
#61. Let us be perfectly clear here," said Squire Loontwill. "You are willing to marry our Alexia, even though she is ... well ... ," he floundered. Felicity came to his rescue. "Old." Evylin added, "And plain." "And tan," said Felicity. The squire continued. "And so extraordinarily assertive.
Gail Carriger
#62. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
Warren G. Bennis
#63. Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
Jim Rohn
#64. Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.
Alicia Machado
#65. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.
Archibald Marwizi
#66. You can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.
Marilyn French
#67. Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
James Dobson
#68. When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#69. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#70. There are strategic imperatives at work as well. Both leaders need to expand their economies, and both see the other as a crucial partner in offsetting China's increasingly assertive
Anonymous
#71. Attention! Everything wants your attention but you need to give your attention to something !
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. The hardest thing about being an actor, for me, is that if you are the 0.00001% of individuals who wants to do it, you're a freak. And you're an assertive freak. Though actors are often shy, there's this tremendous assertive extroversion in you somewhere.
Janel Moloney
#73. Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly ...
Saket Assertive
#74. The self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
Arthur Koestler
#75. Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.
James Buchan
#76. We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.
Toni Morrison
#77. Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.
Wes Fesler
#78. You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience
Julian Pencilliah
#79. The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#80. Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.
Bryant McGill
#81. Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.
Wes Fesler
#82. I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.
Sue Bird
#83. In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
Andrew Tudor
#84. I was just trying to open the doors ... but walls fell down
Saket Assertive
#85. And just for the record, I think he needed to be a little more assertive with the woman he loved. That's why he lost her to Lancelot, you know. Lack of assertiveness. A man needs to be ready to lay down his life for the woman he loves. But first he's got to let her know that she's adored.
Janice Hanna
#87. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Sivananda
#88. Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.
Charles F. Haanel
#89. As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.
Sharon Stone
#90. I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.
Paul Lisicky
#91. Never feel bad for being assertive, speaking your mind, and putting your foot down. What you think is anger, others see as a good solid display of self-esteem.
Alison James
#92. Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
Umberto Eco
#93. Some people are Accommodators; others - like me - are basically Assertive; and the rest are data-loving Analysts.
Chris Voss
#94. I tried to make my life colorful with Red, Green and Blue ... ohh god ... my perfection in blending made it white !!!
Saket Assertive
#95. Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.
Jay Weatherill
#96. If we're sweeping up the station with a dustpan and brush, just when we've finished, someone will flick a cigarette butt or a piece of litter right on the spot where we've cleaned. There are too many self-assertive people out there.
No One
#97. You're always telling me to be more assertive and speak my mind. This is what I look like when I speak my mind. I can drink what I like, I can work where I want to work, I can have sex with anyone I want to have sex with. I don't need public approval.
Anonymous
#98. I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
Taye Diggs
#99. Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.
David Marusek
#100. The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
Sharon Anthony Bower
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