Quotes About Assertiveness

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

Teach people how to treat you

Self Respect " respects boundaries, yours or other's, "Ego" is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.

choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him." gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.

There's nothing childish about me, sweetheart.

Are you going to put some clothes on?" she blurted out."No. Are you going to take yours off?""No.""Right. Of course not.

At the beginning, always say yes. Later on, if you want to say no, no one will say no to you...

Boys need to have the courage to fight back!" their mother continued. "If you want to keep on playing with girls all the time, I'm going to have to snip off your weenie!

I want to be bullied. But in again and you'll pay." "She... wants to be bullied...?

Não tenha receio de posicionar-se de acordo com seus sentimentos. Há a hora de dizer sim e a hora de dizer não. Faça isso com naturalidade e será surpreendido com a reação positiva das pessoas. É que suas energias estarão mais equilibradas e favorecerão o entendimento.

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

What does one wear when one goes to give one's father hell?

Please remember that pleasing another is not the same as caring for another.

One piece of advice I think they should ignore is the value of being a "people person." No one cares if you are a people person. Have a point of view, and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, and with conviction.

You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man," she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn't said "abusive," I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

Second, there is a payoff in self-defense. If what we want or think does not meet with a positive response, we can take it back, or claim—perhaps sincerely—that that's not what we meant.

Hey, stronzo, che cazzo fai?" Mario demands.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

Beau was going to have a cow. But when did Beau's opinion ever keep Zac from doing what he wanted?

She wanted to smack the cocksure grin right off his face.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness