Quotes About Assertiveness

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Rule 1: Be kind.Rule 2: Don't be a doormat when they step on you.Kindness and sticking up for yourself go hand in hand if you want happiness.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

No" is a complete sentence.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

You can say no if that is more truthful than a resentful yes.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.