Quotes About Assertiveness

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

You should never hold back in giving your opinion - it's important to always stand up for what you believe in and not just agree with those around you.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in.

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

As we have done throughout history, we will remain a country that will speak up for what we believe in, support the international rules-based system and stand up for the free, and fair democratic values.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls.

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.

Standing up for yourself. That's the thing martial artists aren't used to. You've got to really stick up for yourself and be a tough businessman when it's time for negotiations.

I often hear women approvingly describe themselves or other women as feisty. Feisty, I feel, has sexist implications, as if standing up for yourself was exceptional in a woman. It sounds like a word that a raffish Lothario would use about a difficult conquest.

Red has always been my color, because red stands out.

I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

I just want to be someone who stands up for being herself.

It's inspiring to play a woman who stands up for herself.

I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl.

Only the man who says no is free

I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.