Quotes About Assertiveness

Unfortunately, in difficult relationships at least one person has her own agenda that precludes compromise. That agenda is expressed in "I can do it myself!" and "I want my way!

No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody's ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn't already made up my mind to say.

I don't need you to give me a life, you old fool. Or haven't you noticed that I've got my own?

He held himself right, collected, confident, but without the swaggering she was used to seeing on successful males. As if he didn't feel the need to constantly claim his space and assent his presence.

Will lifted his chin to catch Murchaud's gaze, thinking when did I grow so comfortable, challenging Princes?

Sometimes it helps to remind them you're not a drone.

I…discovered I liked my own dance. So I stayed away and they requested another retreat on, which they were legally obligated to give me. And that I decided I wasn't going back at all.

I'm not dragging my tail through that." Primly, with a flip of his long, crossed primary feathers. "You wanted to go this way. We're going this way. And you can carry me.

If the petty rebellion makes you feel better, Casey, by all means, indulge yourself.

Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn't exercise it very often.

Yes," said Daphne, repressively.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.

Power is the ability not to have to please

A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

No one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up.

Then, when those amateur experts share their advice, you can smile, say "Oh, really?" and then go about your business, with quiet confidence, in your own way.

I DON'T CLAIM TO BE A MASTER OF ANYTHING ... I prefer to be a mistress instead, tall black vinyl boots, red garter, tight laced bodice, long flowing hair, wicked smile …

I knew I'd claimed my own power, when I stopped asking others to approve, to endorse or to agree with me about anything.

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

Stop smelling me," she said to him.

Alguien puede decirme qué diantre es eso? Y señaló hacia el valle con un dedo imperioso e imperial, el que había utilizado para señalar las Pirámides cuando aquello de los cuarenta siglos o -en otro orden de cosas- el catre a María Valewska.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

He told the jury that i was hiding the fact that i had big fat arms like the woman who was shown robbing the bank, that i was concealing my arms because i had not worn a sleeveless dress in kourt (the trial was held in the middle of January). As he was talking, i politely rolled up my sleeves right there in the kourtroom, exposing my very thin arms.