Quotes About Assertiveness

the best way to be allowed to do something was to do it with authority and put the onus on someone to stop you.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Hiii!' she shouted. 'I'm Charlii. With two i's.' 'We all have two eyes,' Shane muttered.

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

Renee was entering her acquisitions meeting with the air of Scarlett throwing the Yankees off Tara. Renee was all about going into battle. She wore a fitted gray BCBG pantsuit and her shaggy bob sleekly tucked behind her ears. She was Not Fucking Around.

No one will deny me this—the least of all you, you mean-girl midget. Fuck you if you think I'm staying away from him.

If you want me you're going to have to come and get me.

He called me an asshole and said, "I'll bury you!" like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head off—I'm not your toy! Your puppet! Your whore! I'm a human goddamn being and I expect to be treated as such! Instead I told him I didn't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. And I want my ashes stored in a disco ball he can hang over his desk.

Believe it or not, I have boundaries.

Besides, it's my God-given right as an American to speak my mind and fill others' ears with my thoughts, my opinions, my innermost feelings, and my repressed childhood memories.

There's a point in conflict resolution when the next person who talks loses. You're ready to play with the big boys when you can recognize that moment.

Pipe down, Chumley! I don't know what black hole of personal ambition you climbed out of, but it's now time to skee-daddle on back, you Crisco-based life-form.

Remember the key to life," Serge shouted over the engine. "Always act like you deserve to be here.

I don't generally go after people offensively, but if somebody comes after me, I will absolutely meet them every step of the way and then some, no question.

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

And I actually had to beg for my last tryout at NXT. Yeah, I actually had to send multiple emails to say, 'I want another tryout and there's no reason you will not hire me after this tryout.' And that was the tryout that they hired me from.

I have no time for being embarrassed.

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

If I want to turn up to the NWA and cause some noise, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

I'm not a yes man. When the UFC says, 'Jump,' I'm not saying, 'How high,' because that's not fair to me.