Quotes About Self-assertion

Robin: I'm sure you've learnt to bake, but you have not learned to handle Much. The phrases that you need my lady, are No, No you can't, and No, get out of here before I throw something at you.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.

In spite of his misery he absolutely refused to take the half gramme raspberry sundae which she pressed upon him, I'd rather be myself he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

In retrospect, the reason for her decision seems evident. Our Noriko, for so many years troubled by the demands of society on one hand and the needs of the self on the other, finally decided. She would do what she wanted. And she did. All attempts to lure her out over the years have been rebuffed. When a documentary was made on Ozu, she refused to appear, just as, when he died, she did not attend his funeral. Setsuko Hara was her own person at last. On Japanese actress Setsuko Hara

Be yourself, take control of your life.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

It's vitally important that you buy your own crown and declare yourself Queen, and then spend the rest of your life living into that.

For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over .

For years I have been saying Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

The part of me that is untouchable today should never have been touched.

Don't absorb so much of what is human that you forget who you are. But if you must, do it for your own sake rather than for the benefit of the rest of us.

She owns her own hunger.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

All writing is propaganda for the self.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.