Quotes about Assertiveness

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

To maximize your life you must declare independence from the opinions of others.