Quotes About Assertiveness

I'm not out to please everyone.

You can't please everyone.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

I don't half love being in my forties! You feel more grown-up and can say 'no' to things without feeling you're letting the whole team down. You don't have to worry about pleasing other people all the time. You just feel more comfortable in yourself.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus.

I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial.

Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That's just the way I was.

I can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.

I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.

That's really my goal, is just to be a kind person who knows how to speak their mind and get their points across.

Well, I like empowering my clients.

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

With all due respect to Coach O'Brien and Coach Godsey, I've told them I'm going to be me.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

I know this sounds arrogant or cocky or like I'm selling myself, but even on the court now, I don't think anybody can stop me. I just have that much confidence.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

I am Gemma Collins. I don't have to answer to anyone about my fashion choices.

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

I can beat anybody on any given day, and I don't compromise.

I'm not going to compromise or not say what I want for anyone.