Quotes About Assertiveness

This is who I am like it or not

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

Enough," she said, putting a finger on Guy's lips. He opened his mouth and bit it lightly, then began teasing the end of it with his tongue. "Stop it!" she exclaimed, pulling it out and wiping it on his shirt. "You are the limit, Guy Webber, do you know that?

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," Trump told Blum. "I realized then and there something I would never forget: I don't want to be made anybody's sucker.

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

Speak you mind, even if your voice shakes.

I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty

Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

How dare you both sit there and criticize and condemn me?

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm sick of people putting words in my mouth.

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

I agree. Kick his ass, sweetheart.

Moltes coses havien estat possibles perquè ell no havia dit no. Perquè els altres que eren com ell no havien dit que no. No n'hi havia prou de refusar-se interiorment i obeir de mala gana. Calia dir que no.

One of the most important aspects of being verbally assertive is to be persistent and to keep saying what you want over and over again without getting angry, irritated, or loud.

Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither of these routes is an honest assertive I want that can lead to a workable compromise of interests to quickly resolve the conflict.

If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.