Assertive Quotes

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Assertive Dynamic Home Most

Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Acting America Assertive Capable

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

America Assertive Countries Decline

By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside Harlem's famous, influential and intriguing residents.

A'Lelia Bundles

Alongside Assertive Assume Becoming

When I went to prom in the early 1990s, I seesawed between my wish to get asked by the right guy and ride in the cool kids' limousine with the burgeoning realization that I was gay. I had a fun night, but I was far from my authentic, assertive self that night. Prom felt mostly like a job I had to do to maintain my position in the social hierarchy.

Rachel Simmons

1990s Asked Assertive Authentic

Canadians are hardly assertive or demanding. We don't expect U.S. presidents to bow down to our prime ministers when they visit us in Ottawa, nor are we looking for the occasional kickback on an F-16 deal.

Vaclav Smil

Assertive Bow Canadians Deal

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

V. S. Pritchett

American Assertive Canadian Cautious

I worked with three designers in my heydays - Bhanu Aathiya, Shalini Shah and Mani Rabadi. Out of these, Mani was the least assertive and aggressive. I remember Bhanu used to be quite insistent and particular about her fees etc whereas Mani was too soft-spoken.

Sharmila Tagore

About Aggressive Assertive Designers

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

Assertive Blossoming Bodies Bring

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

Steph Houghton

Assertive Bit Confrontation Fine

Being a feminist is not about how successful, talented, and assertive you are in your own life. It's about whether you support the struggle to overcome the limiting gendered stereotypes and barriers that force so many women to restrict their aspirations as workers, to fulfill their aspirations as parents, and force so many men to do the opposite.

Stephanie Coontz

About Aspirations Assertive Barriers

While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.

Steve Scalise

Always Assertive Bill Divided

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

Afraid Always Assertive Attracted

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

Array Assertive Became Catfish

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Assertive Being Business Business world

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Against Assertive Best Citizenry

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

Bea Arthur

Assertive Child Know Me

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

American Assertive Began Both

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