Assertive Action Quotes

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

I have always been a guy who is aggressive in throwing the ball.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."

The veto power is only meaningful if one uses it from time to time

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

It’s not enough to ring the bell. You have to make sure the other guy hears it.

You must ask for what you really want.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.

I don't believe in talking when you have the number of the person who can make that fight happen. If you really want it, you know who to call.