Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young…

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

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

— James D'arcy

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

— Sara Bareilles

“I also realized that in my family drama a very limited number of character traits were available to the players. In my mind, either…

— Mark Sichel

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain…

— Camille Paglia

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

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs…

— Anonymous

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be…

— Grenville Kleiser

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

— Bea Arthur

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…

— Bryan Cranston

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

— Sivananda

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

— Wes Fesler

Of course you don't want to make outs on the bases , but there are times you have to be assertive in order to…

— Joe Maddon

“Be calm; yet assertive. Be meek; yet courageous. Be gentle; yet bold. Be kind; yet strong.”

— Charles F Glassman