Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was Simplicity. This week’s virtue is assertiveness. Assertiveness means being positive, bold and confident about oneself. This includes being assertive about our morals, opinions, talents, ideas and conveying these through the support of our values.
10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Assertiveness
- “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
- “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” ― Malcolm X
- “To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” – Albert Camus
- “Assertiveness is not what you do, it’s who you are!” –Shakti Gawain
- “We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.”― Theodore Roosevelt
- “To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “I encourage people to remember that “no” is a complete sentence.”― Gavin de Becker
- “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”— Anthony Robbins
- “The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today’s social change is to begin to perce ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.” – Margaret Adams
- “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
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