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Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! -- Shakti Gawain
Assertiveness is most effective when least applied. -- Wes Fesler
There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed. -- Justin Guarini
Let's build bridges, not walls. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only healthy communication style is assertive communication. -- Jim Rohn
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. -- Nathaniel Branden
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. -- Nathaniel Branden
Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues. -- Wes Fesler
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. -- Jim Rohn
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no. -- William Glasser
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. -- Elizabeth I
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. -- Elizabeth I
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. -- Arlen Specter
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
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing. -- Nathaniel Branden
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla. -- Twyla Tharp
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
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves. -- Nathaniel Branden
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition -- Bruce Lee
Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness. -- Cesar Millan
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group. -- Cathy Guisewite
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts. -- Nathaniel Branden
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. -- Camille Paglia
Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group. -- Barbara Seaman
The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem. -- Nathaniel Branden
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right. -- Jacques Barzun

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