Quotes About Assertiveness

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

I feel like a Bull Moose.

A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.

Bullies are weak!Bullies are cowards!Bullies are full of hot air!Time to let go of the balloons and let the bullies, Fly Away!

I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

I don't really care if they like me or not.

I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

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I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

I say what I please, and at this moment it pleases me to tell you that you annoy me. Aramis! Porthos!

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' That was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance