Quotes About Self-assertion

It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

Fight your fight,' she tells me. 'Let someone else worry about theirs.

We're not sorting sand because of Call. We're sorting sand because of me. - Tamara

They're never going to respect me if I don't fight back,'' I tell her. She sights. ''They're never going to respect you, period.

No, I won't help you. No I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

Bugger niceness. It was overrated.

Choose something big that you think it's really not okay to want, something you think would make you seem greedy or selfish if you asked for it. And make sure it's something you really do want. Then ask for it. Whether you get it or not, fight your impulse to apologize or feel bad. Tell yourself it's okay to want what you want. Combat the impulse to scale back out of fear that you're overreaching.

You back down and they're gonna walk all over you. Not just today, but every goddamn day.

You have the right to be you. -- Lisa Haisha

Because Zach is a controller and she has to show him that she cannot and will not be controlled and that all the champagne and big, soft eyes and compliments and expensive fish in the world is not going to change that.

Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means! ~Alvis

Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what's right for me except me. I'm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

Whatever everyone else was not, I was willing to be.

Es interesante aceptar sin traumas la idea de decepcionar a los demás, de no hacer lo que esperan de ti.

Naw! Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me.

Put dat in yo' pipe and smoke it.

I do think that, as an advocate for myself on set, I'm very direct.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties.