Quotes About Self-assertiveness

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.

Sometimes self-assertiveness is manifested through volunteering an idea or paying a compliment; sometimes through a polite silence that signals nonagreement; sometimes by refusing to smile at a tasteless joke.

While healthy self-assertiveness requires the ability to say no, it is ultimately tested not by what we are against but by what we are for.

If capitalism offered a broader arena for self-esteem to operate in than had ever existed before, it also offered challenges that had no precedent in earlier, tribal societies—challenges to self-reliance, self-assertiveness, self-responsibility, and personal accountability. Capitalism created a market for the independent mind.

Self-assertiveness" without consciousness is not self-assertiveness; it is drunk-driving.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

Amanda Seales

You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself." "How about I express you out the nearest window?

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

Hiii!' she shouted. 'I'm Charlii. With two i's.' 'We all have two eyes,' Shane muttered.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

You don't give yourself a nickname unless you're bloody struggling.

He slugged back the last of his coffee and stood. Nobody gets me, sweetheart. And if I want anything you've got, you'll know the minute I come after it.

Be your own advocate.

If someone would tease me about my hair, I would laugh... if someone called me black, I would laugh. I just took things in my stride. I was never made a victim.