Quotes About Assertiveness

Stevie, how many stories - It's all one story, Stevie said, and the confidence in her voice surprised her. It was about money then, and it's about money now.

Told me not to sell my self short

She was exactly who she wanted to be.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a saint. You're a bitch.

The men I was fighting were impotent. The shiftless, the purposeless, the irresponsible, the irrational—it was not I who needed them, it was not theirs to dictate terms to me, it was not mine to obey demands.

you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want?

Get the hell out of my way!

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

didn't you enjoy meeting the young men?" "What men? There wasn't a man there I couldn't squash ten of.

I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now." "That's quite all right," said Dagny. "I'm the man.

I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. "I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others.

I don't usually let things happen to me. I made a mistake this time. I shouldn't have waited for you to throw me out. I should have left long ago.

It was a satisfying bravery; it never aroused antagonism.

Hank Rearden is the kind of man who sticks his name on everything he touches. You may, from this, form your own opinion about the character of Hank Rearden.

his convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole

If you're going to do this work, Barack, you've got to stop worrying about whether people like you. They won't." Patronage

Don't be thick, all right? I'm not just talking about one time. Look, I ask Monica out, she says no. I say okay … your shit's not so hot anyway.

I gotta say, boss," he told me, "that was some real gangster shit back there.

You could talk stuff to rattle an opponent, but that you should shut the hell up if you couldn't back it up.

You're too important for me to take no as an answer

we'll shove it up their ass.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.