Quotes About Assertiveness

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

You can't really fake confidence.

I'm not going to shed a tear for not being liked.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

You have to say no to a lot of people and when a lot of people are telling you what you're doing is a bit rubbish you just have to have the courage to say 'no it isn't' and believe in it.

I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

I never get affected by anyone telling me anything.

I'm not averse to telling people off.

My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women - and guys - how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.