Quotes About Assertiveness

Era, por primera vez, la conciencia de mi propio valer: lo que me apartaba, me distinguía de los demás, eso importaba; lo que nadie sino yo decía y podía decir, eso era lo que tenía que decir.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

If you allow someone to treat you badly, then the love can't get through.

Not unless he crossed the line.' Holly supposed she should let this go, but she was tired of Vera's bullying. 'Ah, that line . . .' Vera leaned back in her chair with her eyes half-closed. 'If only we knew exactly where it was.' There

It was a kind of duty you owed yourself that when anybody said come on son do this or do that you should stand up and say look mister why should I do this for whom am I doing it and what am I going to get out of it in the end?

I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. 'Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.' A

A complaint can come out of a sense that unless you complain, the same thing will keep happening. In other words, a complaint can be what you have to make to stop the same thing from happening.

Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A

Its not bragging if its true.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot. No, Delia said, over her shoulder. Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach. Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. Stomp them. she said, under her breath. Really

You know, I told him,if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Now he did smile. I know how to eat a cupcake. Sure you do. I do, he said. I just don't want one of those. Yeah? Prove it.

She's a baby, Maggie told me. Babies wear pastels. Says who? I asked. ... Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which engourages them to not be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse.

You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.

I have boobs! Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.

Somewhere along the way, I started to believe it myself. I think that being brave and self confident doesn't necessarily start inside, honey. It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

Say each cue word clearly, in a strong but nonthreatening voice.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: I do not want to call pop soda. I do not want to eat gloppy banana mush. I do not want to be it. "I'm pretty sure the way I play is the right way," I say, my throat tightening. I'm right. I am.

I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence.

did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence"—applied

Lafayette, "I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence." Spoken like every only child ever. Lafayette

The answer is no, said Melody firmly. "Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

Jacey's eyes hardened. She did not appreciate reality coming along and snapping her thong.