Quotes About Self-assertion

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness...

And I could feel what he felt on the night when he realize that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

No one has the ability to define who you are unless you give permission.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

I am America," Clay will proudly declare. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me

What all four stories tell us is that there comes a time for each of us when we must make an ultimate decision as to who we are. It is a moment of existential truth. Lot is a Hebrew, not a citizen of Sodom. Eliezer is Abraham's servant, not his heir. Joseph is Jacob's son, not an Egyptian of loose morals. Moses is a prophet, not a priest. To say yes to who we are, we have to have the courage to say no to who we are not. Pain

And I am, whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

I put b in bitch , baby.

I'm Hawkfrost.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray." Dorian who?" I sighed. Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know." Sure thing, Gumdrop." I grimaced. I take that back. Let's stick with Grey.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

I've always refused to associate myself with a brand.

Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.'

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

I certainly don't have horns growing out of head.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them," Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket. Cherry. "Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

I've been victimized but that doesn't mean I have to be a victim.

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.