Quotes About Assertiveness

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.

I guess I'm just comfortable in my own skin. Whatever I want to do, I can do. If I don't wanna do something, I won't do it. I'm confident in myself.

Make sure you're on my level if you think you wanna go toe-to-toe with me 'cause you cannot. Let's make that very clear.

I do what I want, when I want.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

I've always known what I wanted for myself. I was 10 years old when I said nobody is going to be the boss of me. And I shocked a lot of people with that statement. I mean, I can barely listen to my own mother - how am I going to have a boss, you know?

When my husband and I are getting into a taxi, I always stop the taxi and say where I want to go. My husband jumps in the car and says, 'This is where we are going.' That's the same when men and women approach wanting to become a candidate.

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

We are the women men warned us about.

In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

Sometimes people can be wary of standing up... but I don't have a problem doing that.

That's the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark; but play boldly and no one will question you.

Swept away was a fortuitous choice of words: it made her mad. She'd been swept away once—she'd let herself be, hoped and desired to be; that's how it always went in romantic stories. She'd never be that passive again. It was far, far better to choose,

The thing I'd learned about older people was that they really no longer cared about impressing others. It made it difficult to bait them or to get your way with them.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Come on Josie." He leaned closer and whispered in my ear, "I really want you there." "Yeah?" I asked, slamming my locker shut. "And do you always get what you want?" "Yes," he said.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

That meant when I wasn't happy about something, I spoke up, often directly and not always tactfully.

Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.