Quotes About Assertiveness

It had to come from me. He would say nothing otherwise.

At every turn, give five good reasons for saying no.

But it could also be willful and unrelenting, pushing memories to the forefront of her brain, like rude people cutting in line. And not just rude, but people who were noisy and smelly and daring you to challenge them.

Because we fear other people's reactions and don't know how to respond, we allow them to violate our limits and boundaries.

In order to stop giving ourselves away and have fair and open relationships with others, we must learn how to communicate our limits and boundaries honestly and effectively.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

If you want information from me, you'll explain why. If you're unwilling to do that, then you can just trot your arrogant carcass out of my office and quit wasting my time. I have work to do.

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it's socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, 'I can speak my mind and say what I want.'

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

When I was a bit younger, I made too much of trying to stick up for myself. But I don't need to prove that I'm not soft or too young any more.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

It takes time and effort to soldier on and make your arguments.

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

I'm very boring. But I'm a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don't care what other people think of them. I just think there's something so interesting about that kind of confidence.

I love a woman who's solid in her shoes.

I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.