Quotes About Assertiveness

As to the career of avoiding making enemies. You can't dig any burrow deep enough. Might as well stand and look them in the eye.

You've built the fire up way too hot," I told her. "Go to hell, Leah, just go straight, directly to hell.

tell him I am mopping the floor, spelled with a silent As you can plainly see, dumbass. He says he doesn't think that's going to do the job.

My grandmother had no use for anything in the line of boys or men. Any of them that stands up to make his water, was how she put it. Bad news for me.

I told him I wasn't going to live like my mom did, letting everybody tell her she was worthless. I'd stayed alive so far by standing on my own feet, and wasn't about to give that up now.

I hollered back.

And don't stand there gawping at me like a sucking duck!' she went on crossly, waving the ladle at Emma. 'Get a move on with yer, now that yer are here, lass! We've no time ter be wasting today.

Without altering my pace or direction, I looked into the chinpira's eyes, my expression obsidian flat. I let him know with this look that I was neither afraid nor looking for trouble, that I'd done this kind of thing many times before, that if he was in search of some excitement tonight the smart thing would be to find it elsewhere.

She ran her own train. She didn't feel she had to get married, she wore her hair and makeup the way she wanted to, she furnished her home the way she wanted to, she did everything the way she wanted to.

She didn't like seeing that look in his face, but she wanted to see it there, she did. He was a man, wasn't he? And sometimes men had to learn what it was to be afraid of a woman.

Go with your bad self.

If you think that would stop her, you don't much about Renata.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Independent people can get what they want through

But you have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Tengo que esforzarme más para lograr mi objetivo de no solicitar la aprobación de aquellas personas cuya aprobación ni siquiera estoy seguro de que es importante para mí. LAUREN GRAHAM, ACTOR

the meek inherit nothing

It's hard to be aggressive when you're confused.

By being ruthless.

Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.

What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness?

I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.