Quotes About Assertiveness

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks.

For example, you have a right to be first, at least sometimes. You are allowed to make mistakes, as long as you intend to learn from them. You have a right to say you don't have enough time for something, if in fact you really don't have enough time. STEP 2: Conducting an Honest Self-assessment Most feelings of submissiveness or aggressiveness have their roots in early life.

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did.

It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.

Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong.

thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.

Jobs's successes came at a cost, since velvety diplomacy was still not part of his repertoire. When he decided that a division of Airborne Express wasn't delivering spare parts quickly enough, he ordered an Apple manager to break the contract. When the manager protested that doing so could lead to a lawsuit, Jobs replied

They all knew they were expected to be deferential to Jobs while also pushing back on his ideas and being willing to argue—a tricky balance to maintain, but each did it well. "I realized very early that if you didn't voice your opinion, he would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive.

Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met. It's like payback.

Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel in this world." That

He does not hesitate at our boldest measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

So how are you going to stop me? I stopped you two minutes ago, look down.

You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it.

some kind of kindness. If that doesn't work, I immediately go to another employee or to a supervisor, or I leave the situation altogether. I will not stand there and be physically, mentally, intellectually, or spiritually abused by anyone, ever, because I know that in allowing this to happen, I have given that person permission to treat me that way.

amazing: Most of the time, kindness and love really work to get other people to understand that they can't treat you with disrespect. But if it doesn't, then you have to go to plan B and plan C and even plan D—it all comes from this internal belief in who you are as a human being.

Setting boundaries helps you reverse all that so you can stand up for yourself no matter what, be it to the people who love you the most or the ones who don't even know you.

lose interest in seeking approval.

what others think of you is really none of your business!

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Unilateralism simply means that one does not allow oneself to be held hostage to the will of others.