“Be calm; yet assertive. Be meek; yet courageous. Be gentle; yet bold. Be kind; yet strong.” — Charles F Glassman Copy Share Image
Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business.… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“It’s a fact that you’re going to have a different opinion or view on certain topics or issues. You need stand your… — Michael Barbarulo: Author God's Healing Hands: Allow God To Reshape Your Soul Copy Share Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Create boundaries. Honor your limits. Say no. Take a break. Let go. Stay grounded. Nurture your body. Love your vulnerability. And if… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts;… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image