Be Assertive Quotes

#1. Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.

Nikki Rowe

#2. 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

#3. Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Be inquisitive.
Be charming.
Be discerning.
Be assertive.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. 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

#6. You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

Julian Pencilliah

#7. Be attentive.
Be adaptive.
Be accommodative.
Be assertive.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Don't wait for your employees to seek you out. Choose to be assertive and go to them first.

Barry Banther

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

James Dobson

#13. 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

#14. Attention! Everything wants your attention but you need to give your attention to something !

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

Bryant McGill

#16. I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.

Sue Bird

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I need to learn to be more assertive.

Brooke Elliott

#21. Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.

Gordon Ramsay

#22. ('I'm going to be more assertive, if that's all right with you', as Erma Bombeck says), and

Stephen King

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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