Quotes About Self-assertion

I swear that I'll never again let someone rob me of my power. It's a promise I still work to keep.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

I'm not just edgy, and I'm not just into a tomboy look, and I'm not just girly. I do what I want, and if I like something, I'll wear it.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

I'm excited to show people I'm not just a girl who wears glitzy outfits and cheers on her man every week.

'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.

I wanted to convey the message of how I do what I want and how I run my own business, and I'm a woman in charge. I want all of my fans to know that that's possible and feel empowered when they listen to my music.

I have learned how to say no, and I have to check myself all the time. I'm not great at it still. Women get criticized a lot more for saying no than men do.

It's not about you, okay ? This time, it's about me. Not you. All my life, Lissa ... All my life, it's been the same. They come first. I've lived my life for you. I've trained to be your shadow, but you know what ? I want to come first.

I often thought of myself as a trigger-happy queen bitch

Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.

Envy is secret admiration. An admirer who feels that he cannot become happy by abandoning himself to it chooses to be envious of that which he admires. So he speaks another language wherein that which he actually admires is a trifle, a rather stupid, insipid, peculiar, and exaggerated thing. Admiration is happy self-surrender; envy is unhappy self-assertion.

No longer a victim. I broke an altar with my werewolf lover. How fitting, how utterly empowering. Broke that bitch!

Then I remembered something. I was Lark freaking Inukai. I sat up, swiping my tears away. I defanged killers. I defused their aggression. I found out their weaknesses and exploited them ruthlessly. You don't know me, Death. Every

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

The reluctant masquerade had begun. At about this time I was beginning to understand vaguely the mechanism of the fact that what people regarded as a pose on my part was actually an expression of my need to assert my true nature, and that it was precisely what people regarded as my true self which was a masquerade.

Define yourself before someone does it for you.

Lately, when asked, I have tended to say that I'm Mexican. I like the word because it still makes so many people flinch.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness

Life is always what you make of it. It cannot be yours if you allow others to write on the blank pages of your book of Life. You must take charge, and lead your life the way you believe it should, with the values you believe in. Start writing the chapters of your book of Life with your own wonderful words, not dictated by others. Good luck!

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.