Quotes About Assertiveness

Nut up, Ben would have said if he was there, although probably not to her face.

Oh yes, I got up on my hindlegs like an orator and sounded off to everyone.

The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There's no argument against a lack of interest.

PERSUASION TIP 9 Display confidence (either real or faked) to improve your persuasiveness. You have to believe yourself, or at least appear as if you do, in order to get anyone else to believe.

Well-made you are, 'tis not to be denied, The rest a bold address will win you; If you but in yourself confide, At once confide all others in you.

I'm neither a lady nor am I fair, And can go home without your care. (She frees herself and exits.)

No one's opinion mattered to Amanda except her own, and she was never wrong. That she was frequently not right was beside the point.

He slammed out of the room, determined to speak with Captian Overly himself. If there was any way to get the Merhammer turned around short of holding a gun to the man,he would do it.

I'm going to take care of this little matter myself, since you obviously won't.

Don't make me have to chase after you again, because there's no way in hell you can get away from me, lady.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to "penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear," as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail.

Good ideas do not need to be shouted. They can take care of themselves.

Well, if I'm not mistaken, if I take your king's

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

I've decided that my motto in life is "Get off my lawn." It's the right answer to everything.

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.