33 Quotes About Being Pushy

There are many ways to get your point across without being pushy. These quotes are just some examples to the type of feelings that are emitted when you push too far.

“A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.”

“America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.”

“And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn’t have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. ”

“And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.”

“Being too nice gets you used and being too mean pushes people away. You should be nice but you should also put your foot down if you have to.”

“Care, but don’t be pushy! Don’t preach about enlightenment to people who don’t really want to hear about it.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.”

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

“I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you’re too self-important, it’s kind of repellent.”

“I asked them if it wasn’t too much trouble, if I wasn’t being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn’t make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.”

“I have always said I’ve had a big personality, and I’ve always said I’m a pushy broad, and I’ve always said I want to get things done.”

“I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest – I don’t want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.”

“I’d rather be hated for being me then loved for being someone else.”

“If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.”

“If you don’t like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I’m nice.”

“I’m an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that’s the way it is, and I’ve never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.”

“In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.”

“My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I’m not doing that.”

“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it’s exactly like love in three ways: it’s pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”

“Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.”

“So what if your custom car shop tanks and you’ve gotta take a crappy job at an auto parts store, dealing with ignorant, pushy people. I’m okay with that, ’cause I’m an ignorant, pushy people person.”

“Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, so you have to make your stands once in a while to avoid getting hurt.”

“Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It’s not that I’m pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don’t stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.”

“Such pushy people, the school union chiefs. It’s almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.”

“The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ’cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.”

“The hardest part about being too strong is that nobody might care to ask if you are hurt.”

“The very worst disadvantage of being too strong is that nobody cares even when you are hurt.”

“There’s just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy – they’re basically pushy because of their enthusiasm – we’re a lot clumsier than other people.”

“There’s no such thing as being too busy. if you really want something, you’ll make time for it.”

“To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.”

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

“Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.”

There are unique differences associated with being proactive and pushy. Knowing which line you fall on will help you to self correct yourself.