Quotes About Assertiveness

for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

How did you make the boys stop calling you Dora? I trashed 'em.

Once I was wicked enough to stop in a thrilling place, and say meekly, 'I'm afraid it tires you, ma'am. Shan't I stop now?' She caught up her knitting, which had dropped out of her hands, gave me a sharp look through her specs, and said, in her short way, 'Finish the chapter, and don't be impertinent, miss'.

Seizing the moment, he had the courage to say, " Ã¢â'¬ËœThank you' is not enough, Mr. Rockefeller.

This refusal to truckle, bend, or bow to others, this insistence on dealing with other people on his own terms, time, and turf, distinguished Rockefeller throughout his career.

blustering contractor stormed into his office and launched into a snarling tirade against him while he sat hunched over his writing desk and didn't look up until the man had exhausted himself. Then, spinning about in his swivel chair, he looked up and coolly asked, "I didn't catch what you were saying. Would you mind repeating that?

One morning, James burst into his office and started swearing violently at Rockefeller, who put his feet up on the desk with imperturbable poise and showed no sign of upset; a fine actor, he always had masterful control of his facial muscles. When James finished, Rockefeller said evenly, "Now James, you can knock my head off but you might as well understand that you can't scare me.

She had never allowed herself to be bullied, and was not about to start.

I get good marks at school, so I am not stupid. If I don't assert myself a bit, nobody else is going to. I have to assert myself by reasoned conversation, not sulks.

We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't.

Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles

Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.

I don't want to be a PULSATING PIECE OF PROTOPLASM!

You are who you are, Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

all about that action boss

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

Get the hell out of my way!

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.