Top 73 Self Assertiveness Quotes
#1. The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation
abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.
Nathaniel Branden
#2. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#3. One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
Nathaniel Branden
#4. The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.
Robert Genn
#5. A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
Nathaniel Branden
#6. The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition
Bruce Lee
#7. When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness.
Nathaniel Branden
#8. When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.
Nathaniel Branden
#9. Sometimes self-assertiveness is manifested through volunteering an idea or paying a compliment; sometimes through a polite silence that signals nonagreement; sometimes by refusing to smile at a tasteless joke.
Nathaniel Branden
#10. If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.
Nathaniel Branden
#11. I remember his assertiveness. There was no small talk. Instead, there were questions. Lots of questions. What do you want? Steve asked. Where are you heading? What are your long-term goals?
Ed Catmull
#13. The best gifts are never given, but claimed.
Warren Ellis
#15. The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
Angelica Hopes
#16. If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter
#17. Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
Shakti Gawain
#18. Don't mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.
Susan Cain
#20. I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
Gavin De Becker
#21. Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.
Richard Rohr
#23. I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#24. When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.
A.H. Almaas
#25. And girls who hold on to their assertiveness and self-esteem are less likely to grow up to be depressed women.
Julie Holland
#27. Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership
to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness.
Cesar Millan
#28. Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.
Fred Rogers
#29. Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.
Wes Fesler
#30. Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.
Bryant McGill
#31. Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.
Barbara Seaman
#32. When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.
Maureen Brady
#33. 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
#34. Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Benjamin Jowett
#36. It's a fact that you're going to have a different opinion or view on certain topics or issues. You need stand your ground by sharing your view.
Michael Barbarulo
#37. I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.
Rona Barrett
#38. By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place.
Miya Yamanouchi
#39. There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.
Justin Guarini
#40. Young Vince used football as an aggressive response to his father's strictness.
Fritz Knapp
#42. Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships.
Doreen Virtue
#43. There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.
Cathy Guisewite
#44. Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.
Barbara Kellerman
#45. If you can teach me something for my betterment then you get my respect and gratitude, but if you are here only to criticize, then I have no time or ears for you!
Maddy Malhotra
#46. Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.
Nikki Rowe
#47. When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
Twyla Tharp
#48. The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.
Peter Heather
#49. Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
Jacques Barzun
#52. My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia
#53. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
#54. Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills.
Peggy Orenstein
#55. You don't even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.
S.R. Crawford
#56. My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.
Erin Merryn
#57. 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
#58. Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths
Melody Beattie
#60. Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
Bob Dylan
#61. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
#62. Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance!
Tom Clancy
#63. Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (145)
Robyn Silverman
#67. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#68. Whoa, hello, assertiveness! How lovely to make your acquaintance.
Tom Leveen
#69. Don't mistake:
Kindness with weakness;
Assertiveness with arrogance;
Self-defense with hatred;
Self-care with vanity;
Faith with ignorance.
Charles F. Glassman
#70. 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
#73. One of the differences between assertiveness and aggressiveness is deciding which battles are worth fighting and which are not.
Thomas J. Harbin
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