Quotes About Assertiveness

Giving in to bullies just encouraged them. Bullies needed to be stood up to.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

That women talked back in a time when they were increasingly expected to be submissive is a point to which we shall return.

No." She smiled. "I am exactly where I need to be. I have no desire to enter negotiations with Lord Garrett and his heir." He couldn't keep down his dark pleasure at that.

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

She refused to let common sense cloud her judgment.

That was the point where she was supposed to sound tough, like she was someone to be reckoned with, like she was the sort of person witches should listen to. Was this really her plan? She sounded like a child.

care what people think

I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.

No" is a complete sentence.

We teach others how to treat us.

Don't be vague, ask for Haig.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don't get what you don't ask for.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

No matter what the circumstances are, we the fighters need to speak up and make it be known we want to fight each other. We go to our promoters and managers and tell them to get it done because at the end of the day, we're the ones fighting, the ones making them the money.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

You have to be confident about the product you're putting out. It's just like when a boxer is promoting a fight. You can't go out there and be like, 'This guy might beat me.'

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'