Quotes About Assertiveness

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

It's not arrogance, it's just destiny.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

So you do have some claws after all!' (Wyea)'You have no idea, ' Ren responded and charged.

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

My confusion will not stand for what I want because I can !!

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

Once I make a decision, it's hard for me to listen to anybody else's opinion. I make a choice, and I'm like, 'This is it. I've thought long and hard about this, and this is exactly what needs to happen.'

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

Me personally, I'm always going to lead by example first. But there are moments where I need to use my voice and go up to a guy and get my message across.

I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.

I guess I'm lucky I learned quite young not to really care what people say. I've learnt young to take a stand if I feel like something's wrong.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.