Quotes About Assertiveness

One of the most important things is that you have to come across as being confident in what you are doing, and in who you are. How do you do that? Speak clearly and smile.' As he said that, Nolan Myers smiled. 'For a lot of people, that's a very hard skill to learn, but for some reason, I seem to understand it intuitively.

Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor—I'm not ten. That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.

Never allow your reality to be influenced by another's listless view of you.

When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to accept in your career.

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

If you do not direct your path, the world will. Don't ever let anyone make you go where you do not want to be.

Fear Less Dominate More

Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don't settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Confidence matters a lot than what you want to say, if you are not bold enough.

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.

Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only

shout, "Enough!

Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only one to judge your own decisions and actions

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.

I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation.

Speak for yourself, always. It is lack of confidence. You can say things as well as Dostoevsky, Elie Faure or anybody you quote. Dare to speak for yourself. Let the other people lie in your blood, but faceless, nameless, diluted, masticated by you, reproduced etc.

I know my defects. I don't need you to take that stand-offish and unsympathetic tone. I get enough of that from the men who can't bully me into loving them, or obeying them

I'm not going to let the book go for a song—and I'm not going to let Kahane get the idea that he's doing me a favor by publishing it.

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority.