Assertive Quotes

87 quotes by 73 authors

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was… — Alan Dershowitz
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style… — Camille Paglia
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. — Jane Pauley
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. — Gordon Ramsay
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
The word itself has another color. Itâ€™s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now… — William H. Gass
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without… — Tim Ferriss
It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the… — Jhumpa Lahiri
But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold… — Soren Kierkegaard
It does, Tennyson, because thereâ€™s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Thereâ€™s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And youâ€™re… — Neal Shusterman
But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to… — Sylvia Plath
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. — William Proxmire
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character — Warren G. Bennis
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or… — Bruce Lee
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are. — James Dobson
I need to learn to be more assertive. — Brooke Elliott
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell

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