Quotes About Assertiveness

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

The greatest self is self confident.

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.

Loving yourself is the first step towards knowing what you would and wouldn't take from people - it determines not just the way people treat you but the relationships you keep in the first place

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

Learn to value yourself enough to walk away from the crap in life and never settle for less than you deserve.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

You either go direct, or you do not communicate. You

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing.

You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.

Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.

a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.

regretted not having insisted on speaking in Arabic

anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

Rogan] "I've been watching you, and you're more confident and decisive than any woman I've ever known. There's no pretense to you. No concern that what you're doing is the wrong thing, or that you're not doing it right." "And you don't like those traits in a woman?" "I do. I didn't know that until I found them.

Sometimes self-assertiveness is manifested through volunteering an idea or paying a compliment; sometimes through a polite silence that signals nonagreement; sometimes by refusing to smile at a tasteless joke.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self-assured and say, "It's easy for her to be self-assertive, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways we build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness calls on our courage.

I choose to value myself, to treat myself with respect, to stand up for my right to exist.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy.

When we do not express ourselves, do not assert our being, do not stand up for our values in contexts where it is appropriate to do so, we inflict wounds on our sense of self. The world does not do it to us, we do it to ourselves.

And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie's ear. Reflexively Allie clapped her hand over his mouth. That, she said, is totally uncalled for. Don't do that again. Ever. The screamer looked at her with worried eyes. Are we clear on this subject? said Allie. The screamer nodded and she removed her hand. Can I scream a little? he asked. No, said Allie. Your screaming days are over. Darn. And he was quiet thereafter.