Quotes About Assertiveness

If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they're going to get it. I don't always exercise that self control and I don't regret it either.

For me, a big part of anxiety and depression was not knowing how to say 'no' and wanting to please too many people... part of this process is learning to draw the line and slow down.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Drew never argues with me because I carry very heavy power tools all the time.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.

There was no way to lead up to this gently. With a surge of assertiveness driven by desire as well as a couple of cosmopolitans, she took both his hands in hers and mustered up her confidence. "I want you to lick me cross-eyed." "You want me to what?" "Okay, that sounded better inside my head." She squeezed his hands. "I want sex. Great sex. Alex, let's do it.

It had become quite clear to me that I gated being told what to do. I wanted to be independent.

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

Your balls, Mr. Darcy?" He reached out and closed her hand around them, and offered, "They belong to you, Miss Bennet.

I like Lilith. I'll be like Lilith. I'll summon her when they tell me to be ashamed. I'll do as she did, up there in Eden, when the Powerful One would not give way to her. I will. And the next time Father raises his hand to me because I've upset my little brother, I'll bring Lilith into me and I'll bite his hand. Lilith wouldn't let anyone strike her.

you create your opportunities by asking for them

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

She thought now it was time to be tested, to make decisions and find her own roads, to stop falling where she was told to fall and to stand only when allowed to stand.

This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!

Whenever I get bird meat, I like to eat it in the open, let the falcons and hawks see who the boss is. Me. I'm the boss.

A surge of rage took over. The next thing she knew, she'd swept his legs out from under him and had him pinned to the ground. She was straddling his abdomen, her hand around this throat. "You take that back." His grin was still in place. Her sending him to the ground did nothing to change that. "Make me.

No such thing as too tall," she said. She had automatically reached for a brush and now she began uncoiling the tangles of my hair. "It's good for a woman to be able to look into a man's eyes. Then she's not afraid to tell him what she thinks.