Quotes About Assertiveness

I'm not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.

I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!

I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

I have always expressed my opinion fearlessly. To not express the truth is far more frightening.

To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.

I like being at the front - it's where I'm meant to be.

Now, with the Hurt Business, this is my chance to let loose. Before, when I was frustrated, I couldn't let it out. Sometimes being a bad dude just feels a lot better.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

All that I do is right—for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law—and the law of some others.

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

I was thinking, she said. Beg my pardon immediately, said Miss Minchin. I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude, said Sara; but I won't beg your pardon for thinking.

Gente egoísta é que diz isso. Chama de egoísta todo mundo que não faz o que eles querem.

She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon—well just come up and see, sir. It's past crediting.

and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay.

You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?

It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.

You're going to tell me even if I've got to shake it out of you.

don't make the mistake of selling yourself short. There'll be people enough out there who will do that for you at some point. If you're not willing to champion yourself, you're ten paces back from the very start!

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

Arrakis enseña la actitud del cuchillo... cortar lo que es incompleto y decir: Ahora ya está completo porque acaba aquí» De Frases escogidas de Muad'Dib, por la Princesa Irulan.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

You are never to let anybody slam the door in your face again.

They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.

Next time I come here, he said to himself, I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.