Quotes About Assertiveness

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

If someone says no, you're talking to the wrong person.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

Never be bullied into silence.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

Those that yield are not always weak

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.