Quotes About Assertiveness

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

I stand up to people.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

I don't view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we're not shy. We'll stand up, speak out - even when our voice shakes.

It's a very big world with some very big characters. And, boy, do you have to be able to stand up for yourself when you walk into a working men's club and negotiate a loan.

We've got to stand up for ourselves. That is, draw some lines, make it clear that after awhile, we're not going to get bullied or pushed around, because I think there are some in China who want to push the United States around. They want to bully us.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

As an only child, you've got to stand up for yourself.

My mother ran the household. In grade school, I came home crying one day. She said, 'What's wrong?' and I said, 'This kid said he was going to jump on me.' She grabbed me and slammed me on the floor. 'If you don't go out there and stand up for yourself, it's going to be me and you.' I didn't want that to happen.

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.

It's a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the bully and not let it be OK - tell a teacher, the principal, or your parents. I want people to stand up and to be confident.

You should always stand up for yourself.

I'm not scared of the president of the United States. And I'm not scared to stand up against the president of the United States.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?

If I want to be brave enough to stand up and make my opinions count, I will have to take the punches and roll with it.