“Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!”
Shakti Gawain
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly.”
Kenneth Burke
“One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own.”
William Cowper
“We are not ready to make the assertion that Israel is engaged in genocide.”
Claudio Cordone
“We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”
Emile M. Cioran
