Best 85 quotes in «assertiveness quotes» category

Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

challenges are everywhere. Awake! challenge and defeat the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way and be not be defeated by the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way

By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place.

Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.

Don’t think for a moment that you’ve gotta be perfect to be paid.

Doers need to think and thinkers need to do.

Embrace the possibility of a fulfilled dream.

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance!

Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.

Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You’re responsible for your own happiness. Anyone who wants you to live in misery for their happiness should not be in your life anyway.

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither of these routes is an honest assertive I want that can lead to a workable compromise of interests to quickly resolve the conflict.

Gracious words nourish the soul.

I am a happy healthy soul by divine grace.

I am enthusiastic. I am endless.

I am enthusiastic and optimistic.

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon

If you have the tendency to repress your anger, you have lost touch with an important part of yourself. Getting angry is a way to gain back that part of yourself by asserting your rights, expressing your displeasure with a situation, and letting others know how you wish to be treated. It can motivate you to make needed changes in a relationship or other areas of your life. Finally it can let others know that you expect to be respected and treated fairly.

If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may not be good for you. You are not being mean when you say NO to unreasonable demands or when you express your ideas, feelings, and opinions, even if they differ from those of others.

For those of us who live in a sunny and hot desert, a cloudy day is sometimes all we need to clear our minds...

I am positive. I am passionate.

I desire knowledge and wisdom.

If someone is inconsiderate or rude to you, risk telling them how it made you feel or that you didn’t appreciate being treated that way. If you tend to talk yourself out of anger by telling yourself that you don’t want to make waves, try telling yourself instead that it is okay to make waves sometimes and risk letting people know how you really feel.

If you can teach me something for my betterment then you get my respect and gratitude, but if you are here only to criticize, then I have no time or ears for you!

If you have the bad MOJO of a situation or a person riding you down you must first remove that saddle.

I have what it takes to get the work done.

I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal

I have all I need.

In reality, for anybody to make real impact, he ought to be real. He ought to know the real position of materialism in purposefulness. He ought to understand the real reasons to act and the consequences for staying dormant. He ought to know the people who matter most in making true impacts and build the best synergy. As a matter of fact, he ought to be ready to embrace the real challenges that come with staying purposeful and making real impact. In fact, he ought to be able to turn what least counts and what is so uncanny to what really counts. He ought to be a mindset changer.He ought to know the real essence of time and timing and the value of patience and assertiveness. He ought to be strong. Living to leave footprints that count is what will make us count

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again...We shall have to stand for ourselves repeatedly for the rest of our lives. As we practice doing this, we come to greater ease...Eventually it may float over entirely into the positive realm—becoming only another chance to demonstrated our worthiness.

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scared or maybe my ego is getting in the way. And the other side of that is just believing that I belong where I am and deserve to take up space. I fight constantly between those two things, between not apologizing for what I want and staying vulnerable and creatively supple and not thinking I know better than everyone else.

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘not me’ in order to have a ‘me’. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don’t like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if ‘just anyone would do’. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with.

May my children, fear, know and walk with God.

My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

No matter how much the soul undergoes stomaching in their specific, destructive sufferings, which triggers, a more abrupt rewritten control for their comfortable state of reality. Now could that exposed authoritarianism from within, prove from beyond a doubt, that your longed comforts, makes you more bountiful today, than recognizing what you had undeniably and unquestionably risked losing in the past, earlier some time ago?

Say NO to all meaningless activities, so do not need a calendar to remember when is the next really fulfilling event in your life.

So many people live their lives not knowing the real and exact reasons why they live. They follow anything for something and they do something for anything. When you live life with a blurry vision, you live a blurry life. Vision is life, and a life without vision is a dead life

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

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

I pray for humble spirit and a willing heart.

Never complain, proclaim positive-words. Then, you will possess the divine grace for a change situation.

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

Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice.. You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.

The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.