Quotes About Assertiveness

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

People who pressure you usually deserve a "no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a "yes".

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

I will, without hesitation, walk away from anything and anyone that threatens my peace or sense of self.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

Never compromise your perceptions and truth to validate the perceptions of others.

Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!

Don't let public opinions pinion you

They think you care, They'll walk all over you

I have what it takes to claim what I want.