{"quotes":[{"text":"A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTSI: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.II: You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behavior.III: You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.IV: You have the right to change your mind.V: You have the right to make mistakes—and be responsible for them.VI: You have the right to say, “I don’t know.”VII: You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.VIII: You have the right to be illogical in making decisions. IX: You have the right to say, “I don’t understand.”X: You have the right to say, “I don’t care.”YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO, WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY.","author":"Manuel J. Smith","tags":["assertiveness","self-help"],"id":12704,"author_id":"Manuel+J.+Smith"},{"text":"You don’t even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.","author":"S.R. Crawford","tags":["assertiveness","badass-character","badass-women","badassery","brave","courage","fantasy","fearless","powerful"],"id":24056,"author_id":"S.R.+Crawford"},{"text":"It’s a struggle for me to remain open,' she admits. 'To not shut down because I’m defensive or scared or maybe my ego is getting in the way. And the other side of that is just believing that I belong where I am and deserve to take up space. I fight constantly between those two things, between not apologizing for what I want and staying vulnerable and creatively supple and not thinking I know better than everyone else.","author":"Amy Poehler","tags":["apologetic","assertiveness","balance","creativity","feminism","vulnerability"],"id":33153,"author_id":"Amy+Poehler"},{"text":"So many people live their lives not knowing the real and exact reasons why they live. They follow anything for something and they do something for anything. When you live life with a blurry vision, you live a blurry life. Vision is life, and a life without vision is a dead life.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["anything-can-be","assertiveness","blurry-life","blurry-vision","follow-your-dreams","good-life","have-a-focus","know-who-you-are","life","live-life","live-life-so-well","think-before-you-act","vision","vision-is-life"],"id":59875,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"We will never fail. We shall fulfil the dream.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["accomplishment","affirmative-action","assertiveness","capable","dream-big","dreaming","dreams","educational-philosophy","failure","god-grace","inspirational-life","mission","possible","power-of-words","purposeful-living","success","thoughts","uplifting","wise-words"],"id":67289,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["affirmations","assertiveness","christian-life","christianity","faith","inspirational","life-lessons","philosophy-of-life","prayer","religion","spirituality"],"id":71985,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I am enthusiastic and optimistic.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["assertiveness","christian","faith","hope","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","motivation","positive-thinking","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-help","self-love","strong-woman"],"id":72245,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertiveness","better","bettered","boldness","boy","boyfriend","boyfriends","boys","confidence","confident","courage","esteem","funny","girl","girlfriend","girlfriends","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","husband","husbands","improve","improved","in-secret-secretly","joke","jokes","kill","kill-herself-over","kill-himself-over","kill-oneself-over","kill-yourself-over","killed","killed-herself-over","killed-himself-over","killing-yourself-over","lover","lovers","man","men","mettle","nerve","phlegm","poise","romeo-and-juliet","satire","secret","self-assurance","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-murder","self-murders","self-possession","suicidal","suicide","suicides","wife","wives","woman","women"],"id":81360,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I have what it takes to get the work done.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adventure","assertiveness","capable","education","i-can","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","positive-thinking","self-confidence","self-determination","work"],"id":83817,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We are capable of performing the task.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["assertiveness","capable","determination","job","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","passion","positive-attitude","positive-thinking","strength","team-spirit","teamwork","work","work-hard","working-together"],"id":105828,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}