Quotes About Assertiveness

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.

I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

We will not apologise for our way of life.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that "arrogant," "headstrong," "narcissistic," and "cold" will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

He expressed himself clearly, in complete sentences, no "uhs," "ums," "y'knows," "likes," or the dreaded "Know what I'm sayin'?" His supremely confident attitude was overpowering. He clearly knew what he wanted and where he was going to get it. When Jack was in LeRoux's presence, it didn't occur to him not to obey.

As you begin to simplify your life, you're going to be making a lot of changes in the way you spend your time. If saying no is a problem for you, go back to your short list (#21) and keep it firmly in mind. Your objective will be to get to the point where you see that by turning down an invitation you're not saying no to someone else; rather you're saying yes! to what you really want to do.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de' Medici O

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ? Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt

o one can make you feel inferior without your consent

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