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Quotes About Assertiveness

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.
~ Paul Feig
If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
~ Randy Quaid
In this game you can waste a lot of energy wondering about other people's opinions when the one that actually counts is yours. Because that's your job, to lead and to manage.
~ Sean Dyche
Know your power, believe in yourself and don't let anyone dim your light.
~ Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Don't let others define you. You define yourself.
~ Ginni Rometty
Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.
~ Megan Thee Stallion
You gotta have confidence in yourself first before anybody else will. I've always had that.
~ Jayson Tatum
If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.
~ Jacinda Ardern
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
~ Tatiana Maslany
We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
~ Zozibini Tunzi
Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.
~ Camille Kostek
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
~ Maya Angelou
They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
~ Judy Holliday
One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It's my unicorn mane, and it's definitely very important to me. It's also my body, and so I don't really care about other people's opinion of it.
~ Justine Skye
I've always just tried to be a guy who will lead by example, and I feel like if something has to be said, I will say it.
~ Mike Daniels
I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn't work.
~ Stormy Daniels
I don't like confrontation. I don't care about it. If someone tries it with me, they will be talking to themselves because I don't listen.
~ Carlos Carvalhal
When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
~ Daniel Cormier
Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.
~ M. Shadows
I'll slap anyone who tries to get fresh with me.
~ Shriya Saran
Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.
~ Alex Smith
I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.
~ Dominic Monaghan
In my house, you got in trouble if you didn't speak up. My mom would be furious at us if we went to school and behaved nicely if someone treated us badly. If we got in trouble because we had yelled at them or told them that they were wrong, my mother would be like, 'Good job.'
~ Shonda Rhimes