Quotes about Assertiveness
We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.
- Joyce Meyer
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
- Wayne Dyer
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
- Confucius
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
- Madeleine Albright
I want to dominate the man's world.
- Marina Abramovic
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
- Jim Rohn
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
- William Howard Taft