assert oneself

Example Sentences

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There is also the little matter of will: bubbling up from within, that profoundly inegalitarian drive to stand out, to assert oneself in the face of anonymity and death.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012

But the courage to assert oneself dangerously for a moment in the spotlight is different from what is required to build less flashy careers or coherent lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

One had to say something if only to assert oneself against that wearisome, passionless and crushing uproar. 

From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Conrad, Joseph

The desire to assert oneself is no less powerful, in the social interplay, than the impulse to submission.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

I believe in such a place as London unless one has resolution to assert oneself people think one is a sort of shadow.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner