Best Assertive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”

“Whenever you’re being verbally assaulted, attacked, and accused, your goal must be to command respect because Tanks simply don’t attack people they respect. Aggressive people require assertive responses. Your behavior must send a clear signal that you are strong and capable because anything less is an invitation for further attacks.”

Strong Capable Respect Aggressive Attack Assertive

Book:Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Source: Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

“Talent today is more aware, assertive and empowered than ever before, which makes it respond better to coaching and facilitation as opposed to direction and control. And organization cultures are changing to reflect this need by dialing down entitlements, privileges and distinctions associated with rank. This is an age which puts a premium on democracy and respect over authority and seniority”

Talent Authority Respect Management Hierarchy Empowered Assertive Rank

Book:The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all”

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Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Being assertive enough to avoid being coerced into sex sounds like a good skill to learn. But you have to wonder what the corresponding page on Challenges said: Try not to rape your girlfriend?”

Men Sex Women Assertive

Author:Moira Wegel

“When Booker first started working for her a few years ago and was living in their home, she saw him cower with apprehension every time she snapped a new order or made him redo tasks more than once, twice, or three times. Now, she knew that he understood her ways better, her need for order, cleanliness, and strict attention to details. She felt he was beginning to realize just what this fifty-seven-year-old Yankee schoolteacher expected of her thirteen-year-old house servant and pupil. He began to appreciate the books from which she taught him after his morning chores were completed. She gave him a few to start his own library and found he stored them in old dry goods boxes in his bedroom.”

Love War America Freedom History Teacher Heritage Scholar Fairness Assertive

Book:The Viola Factor

Source: The Viola Factor

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The aggressive person fights. The passive one runs away. But the assertive person stands ground, assesses the situation, adapts, and acts with purpose and passion. Be that person.”

Aggressive Passive Assertive Fight Or Flight Response

Author:Charles F Glassman

“I am Mae Waylander from Halts-Walden, daughter of Robert Waylander, a good man who lost his life saving hers.' I point to Ellen. 'And I am the girl who has saved your brother's life on numerous occasions in the Waerg Woods - who fought off a wood nymph, a psychotic pre-adolescent prophet, and a determined flock of killer birds - only to have your father shoot an arrow in my side because I wouldn't let him kill my stag.”

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Author:Sarah Dalton

“Know-It-Alls like Dr. Leavitt are knowledgeable and extremely competent people, highly assertive and outspoken in their viewpoints.”

Competent Outspoken Assertive Viewpoint Knowleageable

Book:Dealing With People You Can't Stand and How to Simplify Your Life

Source: Dealing With People You Can't Stand and How to Simplify Your Life

“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”

“Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.”

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Author:Jay Weatherill

“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”

Wells Differences Compassion Rights Behavior Well Being Aggressive Gentleness Our Words Assertiveness Assertive Aggressiveness Being Assertive

Author:Sharon Anthony Bower

“Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.”

Ifs Able Situation Leader Letting Go Behavior Forgiving Arise Resentment Lingering Assertive

Author:James Hunter

“No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.”

Men Self Whole Unique Universal Independence Tendencies Manifestation Islands Dependent Entity Inward Wholeness Dependence Autonomy Assertive Antagonist Self Contained Janus

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.”

Self Individual Dangerous Tendencies Assertive

Author:Arthur Koestler

“the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.”

Self Society Expression Tendencies Wholeness Assertive

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.”

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Author:Wes Fesler

“Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.”

Doe Home Faces Produce Tongue Assertiveness Assertive Smiling Faces Being Assertive

Author:Wes Fesler

“The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.”

Way Nations Fashion Majors Constant Notes Mood Setting Settings Minors Chords Assertive Foreboding

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.”

Ifs Past Social Emotion Break Environment Style Discipline Innovation Structure Endure Bored Assertive Social Structure New Environment

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.”

Needs Age Social Process Labor Assertive

Author:Herbert Schiller

“In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.”

Play Film Impossible Tasks Hollywood Manage Knives Assertive Misty

Author:Andrew Tudor

“Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.”

Fairs Firm Assertive Being Assertive

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“To advance from a nuanced dissent to a compelling vision, progressive policymakers should turn to the great mainstay of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy: liberal internationalism... (which) should offer assertive leadership - diplomatic, economic, and not least, military - to advance a broad array of goals.”

Goal Vision Economic Military Policy Progressive Foreign Policy Dissent Diplomatic Assertive

Author:Suzanne Nossel

“Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.”

People Hard Past Understanding Worry Assertive Understanding Myself

Author:Pam Dawber

“I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.”

Becoming My Friends Becoming More Talk To Me Assertiveness Assertive

Book:Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins

Source: Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins

“Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.”

Self Singing Assertive

Book:The Unicorn

Source: The Unicorn

“Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.”

Mean Doe Feelings Attitude Willing Attacking Assertive Being Assertive

Author:Albert Ellis

“A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.”

“you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.”

Giving Kind Fun Kicks Dependent Passive Assertive

Book:The Bleeding Heart: A Novel

Source: The Bleeding Heart: A Novel

“I need to learn to be more assertive.”

Needs Assertive

Author:Brooke Elliott

“In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.”

Nations President Seeing Republican Democrat Congress Despite Momentum Preventing Assertive Backing Down

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Whole Half Dog Track Drunk Owners Miniatures Poodles Assertive Uptight

Author:James R. Heath

“Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.”

Girl Individual Boys Temperament Vary Assertive Audacious

Author:James Dobson

“It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.”

Young Used Interest Audience Easier Musical Conservative Boundaries Pushing Bells Noisy Assertive Schubert

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.”

Knows Heart Persons Lost Deals Grass Reverence Blades Assertive Blades Of Grass

Author:Gerald Vann

“Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.”

Self Active Defining Assertive

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.”

Boldness Assertive Being Assertive

Author:Bryan Cranston

“The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.”

“I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.”

Assertive Crunch Crunch Time

Author:Sue Bird

“If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Self Matter Faces Challenges Self Esteem Limits No Matter What Self Confidence Esteem Self Respect Assets Inadequate Unworthy Deficiency Assertive Self Trust

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.”

Body Understanding Hungry Generous Meals Fast Food Blossoming Assertive Gourmet

Author:Sharon Stone

“I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.”

Thinking Method Checks Passages Assertive

Author:Paul Lisicky

“My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role. As any motorcycle enthusiast can probably attest to, getting your motorcycle looking and riding the best certainly holds a high rating of importance. And if I don't finish the Lego city with my son, then I meet the wrath of an extremely assertive four-year-old project manager.”

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Author:Danielle Cormack

“Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.”

Sometimes Strong Independent Faults Courageous Massive Very Strong Assertive

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. In the wild, dogs don't need humans to achieve balance. They have a pack leader, work for food and travel with the pack. When we bring them into our world, we need to help them achieve balance by fulfilling their needs as nature intended. This takes exercise and discipline before affection, and always maintaining your calm, assertive pack leadership.”

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Author:Cesar Millan

“I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is the same, meaning that there are going to be strong and assertive women that are Muslim. There's going to be a more passive woman who just so happens to be a Muslim. There may be a funny, big-personality woman and she's Muslim.”

Thinking Looks May Bigs Happens Strong Dangerous Personality Assuming Passive Assertive Muslim Women

Author:Nia Long

“My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.”

Ifs Feels Trying Long Doe Running Nice Easier Harm Long Runs Passive Being Nice Default Assertive

Author:George Saunders

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