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Quotes About Assertiveness

Have the courage to act instead of react.
~ Unknown
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
~ Man Ray
When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.
~ Julia Child
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
~ Ovid
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
~ Sinclair Lewis
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
~ Unknown
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
~ Julia Child
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
~ Katharine Hepburn
So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already.
~ Kiera Cass
(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit, " which was and is awesome.)
~ Tina Fey, Bossypants
I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
~ Unknown
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.
~ Philippa Gregory
Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true.
~ Philippa Gregory
She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.' 'You told me to risk it.' I reminded her. 'That was for you,' she said 'I would not live my life as you live yours. You would always do as you were bid. I am not like you. I make my own way.
~ Philippa Gregory
I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.
~ Philippa Gregory
My mother does not need your good opinion," Anthony says icily. "None of us care what you think.
~ Philippa Gregory
The queen is right. The queen is always right.
~ Phillipa Gregory
and if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place
~ Phyllis Gotlieb
Enough , you hens! Niobe exploded. It's tentative! Lachesis snorted As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!
~ Piers Anthony