(115 quotes found)
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself”
Andre Gide
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
Cecil Beaton
“Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!”
Shakti Gawain
“I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.”
William Booth
“Never argue; repeat your assertion”
Robert Owen
“I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.”
Derek Bok
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.”
William Carlos Williams
“He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own.”
William Cowper
