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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
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. -- Cesar Millan
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. -- V. S. Pritchett
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. -- Jane Pauley
Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love. -- Alicia Machado
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. -- Gordon Ramsay
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. -- Bryan Cranston
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. -- Sharon Stone
The only healthy communication style is assertive communication. -- Jim Rohn
There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence. -- Bryan Cranston
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. -- Sharon Anthony Bower
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
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. -- Albert Ellis
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 through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. -- Bruce Lee
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? -- Jules Feiffer
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant. -- Nathan Huggins
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive. -- Dean Koontz
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- James R. Heath
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth. -- Oswald Chambers
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. -- V. Raymond Edman
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. -- Jim Rohn
I need to learn to be more assertive. -- Brooke Elliott
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are. -- James Dobson
I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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. -- Jay Weatherill
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. -- James Buchan
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. -- Camille Paglia
Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche. -- Tom Douglas
The hardest thing about being an actor, for me, is that if you are the 0.00001% of individuals who wants to do it, you're a freak. And you're an assertive freak. Though actors are often shy, there's this tremendous assertive extroversion in you somewhere. -- Janel Moloney
I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you. -- Taye Diggs
Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led. -- Loretta Reynolds
Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
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 not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.' -- Alan Dershowitz
Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining. -- Bryant H. McGill
Be more assertive with what you want to do. -- Jim Gaffigan
Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. -- Iris Murdoch
I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time. -- Sue Bird
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. -- Sivananda
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. -- Arthur Koestler
Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair. -- Gordon Ramsay
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me. -- Wendy Wasserstein
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood. -- Andrew Tudor
Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues. -- Wes Fesler
I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think. -- Paul Lisicky
the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. -- Arthur Koestler
Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor. -- Herbert Schiller
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. -- Evangeline Lilly
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. -- Marilyn French
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines. -- Neal Shusterman
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. -- Tim Ferriss
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. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether. -- Charles F. Haanel

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