Quotes About Assertiveness

thought he might like to strangle her. "Normally I should not be so bold," the woman went on, "but your

I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

When you love yourself and are able to indulge in yourself, and you're grounded in your 'yes' or 'no,' it's nothing to ask a guy on a date.

In service industries, we can be so people-pleaser-y that you don't know how to set your own boundaries.

Don't let anyone make you feel inferior, because you are great. Be comfortable and confident in you skin.

I don't have an inferiority complex.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.

I'm going to give input when I need to. When it needs to be said.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

No, I'm not an insecure person at all.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.

There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.

I was never good at taking instructions.

Being fierce is a compliment! It's not an insult.

The majority of guys that I've met, that I consider confident and sexy, are pretty well rooted in who they are. They know their values and their worth as a person. They know they are intelligent, caring men, and that generates confidence.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.