“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.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“No matter how much the soul undergoes stomaching in their specific, destructive sufferings, which triggers, a more abrupt rewritten control for their… — David Barksdale Copy Share Image
The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“So many people live their lives not knowing the real and exact reasons why they live. They follow anything for something and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither… — Manuel J. Smith Copy Share Image
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away.… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTS I: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the… — Manuel J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is hard to compare cultures without overgeneralizing, but I think a lot of American poetry has an assertiveness - an upbeat… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising-group. — Barbara Seaman Copy Share Image
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Young Vince used football as an aggressive response to his father's strictness.” — Fritz Knapp Copy Share Image
