Quotes About Assertiveness

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.

I've realized I have not been completely honest with what I need and what I want and how I've been treated, and I haven't necessarily stood up for myself. I've not always stood completely in my power and spoken the truth.

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself.

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.

I stopped caring what people thought.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

I've gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, 'Hi, I think you're cute. Are you single?' I'm not smooth. I just put it out there.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

I've learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn't standing up for myself and I wasn't caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

If you can convince yourself, you can convince the other fellow,

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

Make your peace with the fact that saying 'no' often requires trading popularity for respect." —Greg McKeown, Essentialism

people, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. —MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks

Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission.