Top 127 Assertive Quotes & Sayings

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

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

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.

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

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

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

You need to receive the ball and be assertive with it.

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

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.

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

I need to learn to be more assertive.

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

Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

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

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

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

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very assertive about the utter essentiality of intellectual undertakings.

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

I'm not a very assertive person.

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 most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

Be more assertive with what you want to do.

The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

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

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 having to beg or fight for it every time.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

China has a more assertive, proactive foreign policy as its interests are growing around the world.

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

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

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

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.

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

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

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

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

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.

Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

Of course you don't want to make outs on the bases , but there are times you have to be assertive in order to get other things that you want.

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character

TDP is always very assertive for public interest.

Canadians are hardly assertive or demanding. We don't expect U.S. presidents to bow down to our prime ministers when they visit us in Ottawa, nor are we looking for the occasional kickback on an F-16 deal.

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

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

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.

Calm assertive energy is the energy you project to show your dog you are the Pack Leader. Assertive does not mean angry or aggressive. Calm-assertive means always compassionate, but quietly in control.

Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.

By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside Harlem's famous, influential and intriguing residents.

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.