Quotes About Assertiveness

Don't take any shit from anybody.?

Trust is the first requisite for making a friend. How can we be anything but alone, if our attitude to men is one of armed neutrality, if we are suspicious, and assertive, and querulous, and over-cautious in our advances?

I'm probably the sexiest and best in bed. Even if I'm by myself in bed.

Get off my phone! What's on your mind, pal!

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

WHAT? Maybe you didn't hear exactly how big my plans are? Big enough to be PRESIDENT president!" I'll say. But that's my job!" he'll say. Look, are you a naysayer?" I'll say. Do you say 'NAY'? I say." Uh . . . no?" he'll say. Then it's settled," I'll say. You're third in charge, reporting directly to the mynah bird!

I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

I don't listen to weakies.

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.

Bear in mind the words "I matter" as a reminder that your needs are as worthy of consideration as anyone else's. Don't deny your needs and preferences in order to be liked or to find approval.

reasonableness and positivity can feel like a kind of bullying.

Are you Fester?" The man had forearms like marble columns at the Acropolis. The beer mug looked like a shot glass in his enormous hand. "Who wants to know?" "Who do you think? Me.

get your stinkin' carcass off my property.

What do you want me to do, go shout from the housetops that I am Henry Clinton and I'm here to tell you you're all wet?

First," he said dispassionately, "hold your tongue. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him. Smile a lot. Make him feel big. Tell him how wonderful he is, and wait on him." She smiled brilliantly and said, "Hank, I agree with everything you've said. You are the most perspicacious individual I've met in years, you are six feet five, and may I light your cigarette? How's that?

I'm older than anybody here, I know more than anybody here, so why should I be so afraid of anybody here?

Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table.

I went to sleep with the tape player whispering softly in my ears such ego-building epigrams as, 'You are better than everyone else and you know it, and people who don't know it had better watch out,' and 'They are all fools and if you were in charge things would be different, and why aren't you in charge, it's easy enough.

Minder of my body you may be. But minder of my soul you are not. What do you say I call the shots and you go along to shoot the monsters? O.K.?

Kerk slammed his hand down hard on the table. The dishes bounced and the table legs creaked. Laboratory reactions! he growled.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

I'm not very good at giving anyone a clear no.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.