Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.
If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.
I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.
I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.
I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.
Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.
I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.
The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.
Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people
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.
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.
It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
