Assertiveness vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
assertiveness | perseverance |
The quality of being self-assured and assertive.
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
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As nouns the difference between assertiveness and perseverance
is that assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and assertive while perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).assertiveness
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(wikipedia assertiveness)Noun
(-)perseverance
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Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.