Quotes About Assertiveness

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.

Say your thing and get out of here. And if they profit, that's fine, and if they don't, too bad!

We Neopalians like a man who can be angry, and I began to think you never would.' 'I am not the least angry,' said I with great indignation. I hate being told that I am angry when I am merely showing firmness.

They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

You can hold it right there,' I said. 'I've already told you. You can't talk about people's sexuality like that. I'm not having it and I'm not putting it in the book.' 'You can put what

She had been dominating, assertive. He was softly spoken, downtrodden, with thinning hair and a face that was mournful now for good reason but which might have been the same since the day he got married.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

I'm not saying I'm Mr Goody Two Shoes. I'm not. But if you try to rough me up, I'm going to body-slam you. I'm going to do everything I have to do psychologically to tell you that you are not stronger than me.

TDP is always very assertive for public interest.

On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

For me, when I came in, I was always worried about making the other guys happy and giving them the puck and almost giving them a little too much respect. It can take away from your game a little bit.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.

When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

You come to me and punch me in my face I'm going to protect myself.

One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don't get punched first. It's the same on defense: You've got to hit first. Do your work early. That's what I was always taught. If you don't do your work early, you're done.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.