Quotes About Assertiveness

"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

Go to the devil, I'm busy.

If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.

Be indifferent to other people's opinions about you. Without indifference, you cannot be a free man.

Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.

Of course, she had to put up with being insulted by the cats at times, but she insulted them back just as loudly and in the same language.

Joan Miró gave me some money one day and told me to get him some cigarettes. I gave it back and said if he wanted cigarettes, he could bloody well get them himself.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

People pleasers, however, tend to overlook the reality that others are responsible

When people pleasers go too far in their pleasant ways, they may inadvertently be guilty of encouraging others to continue in selfish or disrespectful behavior. Instead of receiving kind gestures with a spirit of gratitude, some people respond with an attitude of entitlement.

I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Jane did believe she was all that,

Saying "no" to yourself can be a way of saying "yes" to yourself.

When you put your foot down and say, "I will not allow myself or the kids to be treated this way anymore. It's destructive to me, to them, and to our marriage," you are not going against God by speaking the truth in love. You are standing for goodness, for truth, and for the healing and restoration of your marriage.

I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'

Look, who's the talking bear here?" Quentin snapped. "Is it you? Are you the talking fucking bear? All right. So shut the fuck up.

she was smart enough to know whose problem that was, and it wasn't hers.

Remember what a good girl I was? Remember how meek and pleasing I was to everybody? For the first time in my life I could just be.

Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—he

I want you to know that I mean it in the kindest possible way when I say that you are being the most unbelievable pussy.

You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.