Assertive Quotes
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.1464, e-artnow
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.15, Oxford University Press
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.102, Penguin
Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.
Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.107, Penguin