Quotes About Assertiveness

I basically started to adopt the mentality of, I'm going to say what I'm going to say. I'm not going to apologize about it. At the very least, y'all are going to know what I'm thinking.

I'm real mentally strong, so there's just not a lot that people can say to get me off of my own self and lane, and my confidence.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I'd show them right away that I wasn't someone to mess with.

I really wanted to be the biggest, baddest guy - not to mess with anybody, just so nobody would mess with me.

I don't care what level you are, there is the need to offer straight talk when you're working with clients. You have to have the courage to deliver tough messages.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

We are the ones out there competing, and yet we read articles and listen to people making accusations about Jamaica, and there's nobody there to take a microphone, be a big person and say, 'What you're saying is wrong, and it's a lie.'

If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don't have to take it, you don't have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you're not comfortable with it, just go.

I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.

I think it's really important for everybody out there to speak their minds, and not be complicit and let fear back you into this corner where you just let everything go by. It's a responsibility.

I don't take a backseat to nobody. That's just my mindset.

I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'

Every time, the mindset I get when I get on the floor is that I'm the best player on the floor.

Stop apologizing! It doesn't help, and it sells the speaker short.

That's my fist. Here he placed his fist, rather smaller in size than a common loaf, in the mathematical centre of the maltster's little table, and with it gave a bump or two thereon, as if to ensure that their eyes all thoroughly took in the idea of fistiness before he went further.

And, dear miss, you won't harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o' your takings.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

There was a time when he would have apologized for disturbing the man and never come back to the newsstand. For years he had taken shit unlimited from people. Not anymore.

What's waking up in me as a result of my rage? How can I use the intensity of this energy to fuel positive change in my life? What rights am I now willing to stand up for?

chronically overgiving as a way to try to prove her value.

If you don't like being a doormat, then get off the floor. AL-ANON

Anger begs us to make a powerful commitment to what we will or will not tolerate in our lives any longer, making it our best friend if we can turn it in the right direction.