Quotes About Assertiveness

It's Britney, bitch

when I begin to feel overwhelmed, I pull back. I have learned to say no. When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

make my decisions based on what I intended, not just on what someone else wanted me to do or what I thought would please them.

groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no. The sense that you are deserving enough to set your own boundaries has been stolen from you. Many people react by burying their feelings of "no" and becoming people pleasers.

To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Don't take any guff from these swine.

No! ¿Cuántas veces te he dicho que no des tu brazo a torcer? Lo más importante para ganar una discusión es no vacilar, aunque tengas dudas y mucho menos si estás equivocada.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

expostulations

Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.

Get in first and shape the terms. He did so in quick short sentences, his smooth tenor's voice as clear and precise as it was when he sang Goethe's tragic poem.

You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that. I hung up.

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. I win.

Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot." Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.

Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day? His eyes flared yellow Is that a challenge? Yes it is.

No, you're not going with him." I crossed my arms. "Who decided that?" He put on his "I'm alpha and I'm putting my foot down" expression. "I decided.

Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

Enough, Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.

The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.

The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff. She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough. I shake my magic stick at you! Let me tell you what you can do with your stick...