Quotes About Assertiveness

If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

her. "No, thank you, Mrs. Cordoza. You get along. I'm just

but his smile was slow and wide. "I don't know, Clark. Some people just won't be told.

hinted at his decision. I reread my own e-mail, wondering if perhaps I had sounded off-putting, too bold, too assertive, whether I had conveyed my own strength of feeling. I loved Sam. I wanted him with me. Did he understand how much? But having issued the most enormous of ultimata it

Yes, I handed in my notice. Yes, I know Mum and Dad are not too happy about it. Yes, yes, yes to whatever it is you're going to throw at me.

In the meantime, put on some really great shoes with that jacket and a red lipstick and let Simon Stockwell know you're not to be messed with.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

I am America," Clay will proudly declare. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me

I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Maybe you should go make that call again. Ask very specifically how much of who's ass needs to be kissed here. I'm pretty sure it's my hairy butt that's gonna be getting all the love.

Tone is the hardest part of saying no.

He gripped me tighter around the waist and pulled me to him. "No," he said into my ear. "No, Lucy. That's not the way it's going to be.

and if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard.

Take it like a man and shut the fuck up.

And I am, whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

But seriously, Gracie. You can't let people walk all over you. They're just people. What right do they have?

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

Either come over, or sit your fucking ass back down. To former Gen. Michael Flynn at White House meeting, December 18, 2020.

Second-baseman Eddie Stanky spoke for the whole team when he shouted at the opposing dugout: "Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you yell at somebody who can answer back?

Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.