Assert Quotes

257 quotes by 221 authors

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,… — Cecil Beaton
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his… — Alfred Adler
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not… — David Cameron
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society… — Albert Camus
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And… — Barack Obama
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present… — George Washington
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they… — Tina Fey
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of… — Mark Twain
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery… — Maria Montessori
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. — John Heywood
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… — Oscar Wilde
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use… — George Washington

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