Quotes on Assertiveness

Germany's path to greater military assertiveness has not been linear, and it never will be. Germans do not believe that talking at roundtables solves every problem, but neither do they think that shooting does.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

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

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Things that I now recognise as just part of my personality - willfulness and assertiveness, maybe even a bit of aggressiveness - these are things that I had been raised to think of as masculine features. I always thought there was probably something wrong with me.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Let's build bridges, not walls.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.