Pushover Quotes

“If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“It's easy to think that people will like you more if you do whatever they tell you to do, but it's quite the opposite. People don't appreciate pushovers - they use them.”
― Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Impossible Is Stupid

“He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes

“I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“The problem is that we learn how to be ourselves so late in life.”
― Tomi Lahren, Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable

“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other person out when need be, if they are hiding from some hard reality. “Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality that serves nobody,” the theologian Henri Nouwen wrote. “Confrontation without receptivity leads to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“I am a committed and a responsible human being and I give 100% in everything I do. I know I'm not perfect, I know I'm far from it but I know I'm worth living. I know I'm here on this planet earth for a valid reason, not to be anyone's pushover.”
― Euginia Herlihy