Quotes About Assertiveness

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account. It

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

If you try to look up my skirt, I'll poke needles in your eyes right through your eyelids while you're asleep.' 'I'm looking for help, you give me nightmares, thank you so much.' She was on the top step now, reaching up for a bin marked DRY BEANS. Rigg looked up her skirt, mostly because she told him not to, and saw nothing at all of interest. He could never understand why Nox and other women, too, were always so sure men wanted to see whatever it is they concealed under their clothes.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

Every woman is a rebel.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

Well, at least she's asserting herself, and you don't have to worry about her having 'squelched girl syndrome,' " she said. Mary Clare ignored that.

I'm not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

Colonel. I'm here to kill people. And if I dont get to kill people I'm going to be a hard motherfucker to live with. And if you're not here to kill people you need to let me know. Because I dont want to work for you. And then he hung the phone up. And I knew that he was my kind of guy. He was a warmongering motherfucker.

Keep the dogs off me!

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

Part of getting what you want is asking for it.

There's no better investment than your cleavage. Charlotte smirked. I believe they teach that in business school.

And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them.

you certainly should

tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes

could feel the male in him, something cold and triumphant

We are the masterless." That is what the American Eagle shrieks. It's a Hen-Eagle.

Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way— He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.

Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.