Quotes about Assertiveness
I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold.
- Toni Garrn
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
- Gloria Steinem
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
- Aesop
Upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—I am what I am, and intend to be it.
- Virginia Woolf
Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.
- Lauren Bacall
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.
- Charles Dickens
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
- Stephen Covey
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
- Madeleine Albright
A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't kiss nobody's butt.
- Dolly Parton
You teach people how to treat you.
- Oprah Winfrey