Quotes About Assertiveness

You are the only woman I know who is as sexy when she unapologetically takes what she wants as she is when she pleads for release.

But I was raised in the United States, and I won't allow any one-horse chicken of the Land of Ev to run over me and put on airs, as long as I can lift a claw in self-defense.

Just who in the Hall are you, anyway?" Vuffi Raa said. Lando looked at the robot sharply. He hated having his good lines stolen.

And if he left me of his own free will, then he should get ready for the bitch-slapping of his life.

Because he should want to be in a relationship with me! I'm friggin' awesome.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

I don't have to alter the way I look - I can still wear a short, tight dress, but if what I'm saying is correct, then hopefully you garner respect.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.