Quotes About Assertiveness

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

there was possibly something complimentary in the way Granny Weatherwax resolutely refused to consider other people's problems. It implied that, in her considerable opinion, they were quite capable of sorting them out by themselves.

YOU WILL NOT TELL THE RIVERS NOT TO FLOW. YOU WILL NOT TELL THE SUN NOT TO SHINE. YOU WILL NOT TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO.

A good shouting at somebody always makes you feel better and in control, especially if you aren't.

Let me through. I'm a nosy person.' she said, employing both elbows. It worked, as this sort of approach generally does.

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes.

Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.

THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!

And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

I like to wear whatever I like. I don't care about others' judgment or if it's right or wrong.

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump.

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.

I don't give people time to start talking junk, because I say something to them first.

It's not just about being sexy, it's about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

It's just something, 'Should I run the team or should I score?' I gotta learn how to balance that, and be more aggressive sometimes.

It's very important to say no to stuff you don't like because then you won't be able to do justice to it.