Amy Poehler Quotes

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

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.

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.

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.

When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I've just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that.

You should always stand up for yourself.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

I can stand up for myself.

I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.

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.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!

When I get this kind of support, I feel validated in my decision to stand up for myself.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.

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

I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.