Assertive Quotes
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
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.
Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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.
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military force against neighbors, especially Ukraine.
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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.
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.
Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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 or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.
I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.
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.
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.
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.
the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment
The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.
sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation