Assertiveness Quotes

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip." "I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way—you were either in my way or out of it." "The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real." "I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you." "Only an idiot would doubt my return." "If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize." "A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing." "I shook up the world. Me! Whee!" "It’s not bragging if you can back it up." "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." "I don’t have to be what you want me to be." "I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself" "I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected." "I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do." "If you have something to say, now is the time to say it" "I still think I am the greatest." "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." "It's not bragging if you can back it up" "I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else." "A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want"