Quotes About Assertiveness

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Settle down, Princess. It's not my first time.

Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me.

Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." ~ Margaret Thatcher

There is no time for holding back.

Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating!

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

You do not know me. I have no desire either to explain or to justify myself to you.

She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.

You would not dare," she said indignantly. He looked at her sidelong. "That is one word that is inadvisable to use in my hearing," he said, "unless you are quite prepared for me to take you up on it. I would certainly dare." "You are no gentleman," she told him. "Why is it," he asked her as they ascended the marble steps, "that you still say that as if you had just now made the discovery?

As I see it, there is room for only one master in my home. It may be unreasonable of me, my dear fellow, but I have always insisted that that master be me.

When you believe in yourself, Anna, when you are in command of yourself, when nothing derogatory anyone says of you or to you has the power to arouse your anger or any desire to retaliate, people seem to sense it and respect you.

Mr. Sinclair is here now, and I mean to have him.

Don't be coy, Suzanne, he said, advancing into the room and moving to her back to reverse the process with the buttons that the maid had begun. Today I need you.

Don't let anyone drive you crazy. It's right nearby anyway, and the walk will do you good.

better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Keep your hands at your sides (not in your pockets) ?       Make direct eye contact

They're always like, 'Would my character really do this or really do that?' And I'm like, 'Who gives a shit? Just make them do it, you coward. Don't be so passive.' You and I, we're in charge of what we can do and what we can't do.