Quotes about Assertiveness

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

If you don't believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so?

You either go direct, or you do not communicate.

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in the ascendency. The world depression brought the opportunity you have been waiting for. It taught people humility, tolerance, and open-mindedness. The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.

You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

My confidence in myself is unbelievable.

I'm not doing one lucky punch or spinning kick and catching somebody. I'm going to own you - not beat you - own you from the first bell to the last bell.

Being submissive does not mean that we don't give honest feedback.

She was reasonably sure her remarks were not entirely foolish, and did not wish to be ignored, much less ignored and patronized alternately. Part of it—but only a part—she knew was due to the softness of her voice. So she developed a physics voice, a professional voice: clear, competent, and many decibels above conversational. With such a voice it was important to be right. She had to pick her moments

it's clear that God didn't create women to be passive victims waiting to be saved by men.