Quotes About Assertiveness

After all,' he said, 'you should know it yourself - a young man is still a , and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

A TRANSLATION OF ROSA HUBERMANN'S ANNOUNCEMENT 'What are you arseholes looking at?

He's the boy who refuses to fear the opposite sex, purely because everyone else embraces that particular fear, and he's the type who is unafraid to make a decision.

I was being Jesse Owens. he answered as though it was the most natural thing on earth to be doing. There was even something implicit in his tone that suggested something along the lines of, What the hell does it look like?

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn

pushed the little girl aside as he wedged his way to the water fountain. The kid turned around to find Mr. Jackson staring down at him. "I've

If you can fight, you don't have to fight. And you don't have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.

that I myself have said no.

I tried to sound firm without being harsh. "You

When he signed his contract for the 1999 season, he insisted that his salary be $1,200,000.99.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs

LAURA. Yes, it's queer, but I have never looked at a man without knowing myself to be his superior. CAPTAIN.

Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you

Don't you go through life worrying about whether somebody like you or not, you best be making sure that they do right by you.

It was impossible to escape her. She provided no natural break in the conversation, and she spoke with such intensity that I would have had to abruptly shout SHUT THE FUCK UP, punch her, and then run away in order to be free.

To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you.

Put another way, to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it's something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

I caught his drift, but I wasn't going to argue for a single second. Just get me to the Hampshire House, that's all I cared about. Besides, how could I say, No, I'm not a prositute. I'm Mrs. Frank Sinatra out for an early morning walk in the rain?

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark)