Quotes About Assertiveness

I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good!

Just as I'm certain Sam is still short. That part didn't require code. Take that, Sam.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Yeah, well, I have my .38 to back me up in case he mistakes me for the weaker sex.

You look like you're about to puke, he observed, pushing his cart forward. With a quick, inner shake she gathered herself and cut him off to take her rightful position as lead cart. I was trying to imagine you as a kid. It was horrifying.

No!" he roared. "I've had enough for today! A little of you goes a long way, lady!" "Please, call me Dione," she murmured. "I don't want to call you anything! My God, would you just leave me alone!" "Of course I will, when my job is finished. I can't let you ruin my record of successful cases, can I?

I won't be talked around as if I'm invisible. This is my house, and let me remind all of you that I'm well over twenty-one. I'll go where I want, when I want. Let them make of that what they would! She hadn't lived with Aunt Ardith for nothing; Aunt Ardith would have died, just on principle, before she would have let a man tell her what to do.

That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.

If I were any man but myself," he said, "I would turn you over my knee and blister your backside!" Tossing

Lily, if you don't stop that washing and look at me, I swear I'll throw you over my shoulder and carry you inside like a sack of grain." Because

Stay there," he rasped, "or I swear to God, you'll still have the imprint of my hand on your ass when you're ninety!" Joellen

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit... Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.