Quotes About Assertiveness

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.

You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I'm my own person, and people can say whatever they want. I'm still going to be the person that I am.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

It's my future and my life and I can't make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.