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
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden 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
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
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Assertiveness is a skill.Skill of mutual understanding, mutual respect & ability of successfully delivering your message. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Inculcate assertiveness in your behavior. If your style is passive you may be shy or overly easy going. — Anil Sinha 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
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
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“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
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to… — Bruce Lee 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
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of… — Sharon Anthony Bower Copy Share Image
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… — Nathaniel Branden 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
“This is now a well-studied aspect of psychology. Social hierarchies inhibit assertiveness. We talk to those in authority in what is called… — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
“And just for the record, I think he needed to be a little more assertive with the woman he loved. That's why… — Janice Hanna 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
“You must give the aggressive and hostile aspects of yourself constructive ways of expression through assertiveness, determination, self-assuredness, boldness, mental toughness, decisiveness,… — Laurence Galian 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
Things that I now recognise as just part of my personality - willfulness and assertiveness, maybe even a bit of aggressiveness -… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler 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
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
“In reality, for anybody to make real impact, he ought to be real. He ought to know the real position of materialism… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
