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Quotes About Assertiveness

I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I don't give a damn what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.
~ Haruki Murakami
The Best Way to Chew Someone Out. When he absolutely has to take someone to the woodshed, Harvey prefers to hand them
~ Harvey B. Mackay
Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan.
~ Haven Kimmel
Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until
~ Haven Kimmel
Bridget: Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.
~ Helen Fielding
HARHARBLOODY HAR. Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it, society!
~ Helen Fielding
Tu ne peux pas passer ton temps à essayer de plaire à tout le monde... Une des choses les plus importantes qu'il te faut apprendre dans la vie, c'est à dire non.
~ Helen Fielding
Une femme doit savoir en quoi elle croit, sinon, comment les autres pourraient croire en elle ?
~ Helen Fielding
Look the world straight in the eye.
~ Helen Keller
never bend your head, always hold it high, look the world straight in the face.
~ Helen Keller
I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!
~ Dan Pena
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
~ Maxine Waters
If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the way I always think.
~ Donna Strickland
I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
I don't shy away from standing up against the president or other people who I think are taking us in the wrong direction.
~ Tina Smith
Train your girls, if someone is touching you the wrong way, slap him.
~ Saba Qamar
I'm not one of those people that's to myself and just quiet. I've never been like that, man. I've always been kind of loud. I'm out there, man. I do my thing, but I don't do it disrespectful. But when people rub me the wrong way, I rub people the wrong way. But I say what I say and I mean what I say.
~ LaVar Ball
I felt like 'What Part of No' was very chauvinistic. I thought men would take it the wrong way and turn against me. I'm happy to say I was proven wrong.
~ Lorrie Morgan
By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.
~ Mick Foley
If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.
~ Paul O'Grady
Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.
~ Monica Crowley
I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they've done it when my eyes were closed, and it doesn't happen twice.
~ Anthony Joshua
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
~ Mark Hoppus
You have to tell guys to ask you on a date. Smile when you do it - however that works, I'm not 'Cosmo.' But yeah - not a lot of people know how to 'court' anymore, sorry.
~ Julie Klausner