Quotes About Assertiveness

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.

The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

Her aunt would be appalled at her forwardness. But Penelope had long ago decided that while the meek might inherit the earth, the non-meek enjoys far more interesting conversations— to say the least.

I am a queen upon this board, Charlotte had once told Lord Ingram, and I do not play to lose.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

Mrs. Watson pressed the heavy coin into Charlotte's palm and closed her fingers around it. "Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

If you have your own kind of power, show your hand. Make the man fear you in you own field. For example, you can write. Your rich man cannot do that. It is quite all right to exercise your own power. Have faith in yourself.

You listen to me, woman: you're mine! I'll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!" His mouth came down hard on hers and his lips crushed hers as he stamped his possession on her startled mouth.

Suddenly, it became very important that he like me, more for my pride than anything else. If anyone was doing the rejecting, I wanted it to be me

No is a powerful word. To me, it's the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.

Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise.

Men," said Suzie. "Why don't you just get them out and measure them?

I want to live life on my own terms.

If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee.

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Paco!" she announces loudly. "Yeah, I'm talkin' to you," Elena says, pointing to Paco talking to a bunch of girls. "Next time you want to take a dump, do it in someone else's house.

Elena opens the door and yanks me through the house, stopping only when we reach the backyard. She lets me go only to grab the microphone from the lead singer. "Paco!" she announces loudly. "Yeah, I'm talkin' to you," Elena says, pointing to Paco talking to a bunch of girls. "Next time you want to take a dump, do it in someone else's house." Paco's entourage of girls backs up and giggles, leaving him alone.

I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. " Can we help you, Alex? " a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured." " I beg your pardon?