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Quotes About Assertiveness

I will be your worst nightmare," was his phrase of choice, in such situations. I have wished intensely that I could say something like that, after encountering unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles, but it's generally best to let such things go.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
To his great and salutary shock, I picked him bodily off the playground structure, and threw him thirty feet down the field.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Así que presta atención a tu postura. Deja de arquearte, enderézate. Di lo que piensas. Deja claro lo que quieres, como si tuvieras derecho a conseguirlo (al menos el mismo que los demás). Anda con la cabeza bien alta y mira al frente con franqueza. Atrévete a ser un peligro. Haz que la serotonina fluya a raudales a través de las vías neuronales que arden a la espera de su efecto tranquilizante. La
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
If you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them — at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.
~ Jordan Peterson
Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.
~ Jordin Sparks
El alma vulgar, sabiéndose vulgar, tiene el denuedo de afirmar el derecho a la vulgaridad y lo impone donde quiera
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Lo característico del momento es que el alma vulgar, sabiéndose vulgar, tiene el denuedo de afirmar el derecho a la vulgaridad y lo impone dondequiera.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
O característico do momento é que a alma vulgar, sabendo-se vulgar, tem a audácia de afirmar o direito à vulgaridade e o impõe em toda parte.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Yo soy toro en mi rodeo Y torazo en rodeo ajeno; Siempre me tuve por güeno Y si me quieren probar, Salgan otros a cantar Y veremos quién es menos.
~ José Hernández
We are the strong ones. We squash anything that we don't like. Anything that threatens us gets smeared! (Grimalkin to Alice)
~ Joseph Delaney
Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, the most deadly.
~ Joseph Delaney
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
~ Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
Of course I mean it," Cinderpelt mewed dryly. "I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.
~ Erin Hunter
I never feel guilty
~ Erin Hunter
We've taken what should be ours, and we will take more," Smokefoot told him.
~ Erin Hunter
Jaypaw let out an exasperated sigh. "Mousefur, for the last time—" "The last time?" Mousefur snapped. "Good. Go away.
~ Erin Hunter
We don't want to play with you, Spottedkit. You're always telling us what to do!
~ Erin Hunter
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
~ Erma Bombeck
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
~ Erma Bombeck
But don't go thinking I owe you any favors, mister. :-)
~ Ernest Cline
But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want." "Oh, snap!" Milo muttered under his breath.
~ Ernest Cline
She would say: "But our boy is not a bad boy," to which my father retorted: "He is and always will be a good-for-nothing." Then mother would say again: "But bad he definitely is not," – because a woman must always have the last word.
~ Ernst Junger