Quotes About Assertiveness

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

Don't be economic Girlie-Men

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

I would never sell my dog for a man. I'd sell the man.

At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.

A man can wear pink if he has confidence, if he believes in himself and knows he's man enough to do it.

If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.