Standing Up For Yourself Quotes

“Beware of those who don't fight back. Sooner or later, they will.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“If you don't like it, say something.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Dear World,

I exist.
Deal with it.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“It’s important that we speak up for ourselves, but even more important that we speak up for those who cannot.”
― Pamela Bobowicz

“Don't mistake my politeness for weakness. Despite your wealth, you are not more important than I am, and you don't have more rights to decent treatment than I do. You know what I'm here to tell you and you must be able to figure out that it's not easy. But you are this baby's blood family, which entitles me to invite you into his life or not. It doesn't entitle you to bully me.”
― Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

“I want to have my friend back, so I need to set him straight. I am by his side and he looks up to see me. I speak before he can say anything.
“Are you talking to me yet? Because I don’t believe you’re justified in your anger. I get to make my own decision about the relationships that I may or may not have. And I can choose at what pace I have that relationship. If you don’t like it, then tough. You’re happy—you have Bethany. Let me find my own happiness. You can’t tell me what to do about this. I have to make up my own mind. Okay?”
― Isabelle Joshua, The Swallow

“That's something to be proud of, to be able to stand up for yourself despite all the things that are falling apart.”
― Sai Pradeep

“Erina, as she is now, is completely incapable of creating true gourmet.
Given how well I know her, I can say that with certainty."
"Oh? I wouldn't be so sure about that. I'd like to think I've changed, Father. The dishes I create now will not be what I once made.
My apologies, but your "precious daughter" has become a runaway and a delinquent. The good little girl you once knew...
... no longer exists.”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 29 [Shokugeki no Souma 29]

“Mom, she's a yoga teacher. She doesn't do..." He lowered his voice just fractionally. "Real jobs."
Aja heard it loud and clear, and looked at him incredulously. "I don't do real jobs?"
"Don't be ridiculous," Lucinda said to Michael. Aja's chest tightened with gratitude before she added, "This isn't a real job, it's a task that someone needs to do, and Aria seems to fit the bill." She leveled that cool blue gaze on Aja. "Don't you?"
"I don't think so," Aja said, suddenly taken over by a cool resentment. She looked from Lucinda to Michael. "I can't believe you two are arguing back and forth about how incompetent and... and... desperate I apparently seem to you. Not that I should have to defend myself to you, but my little job helps a lot of people. Would you have any more respect for me if I was called a physical therapist instead of a yoga instructor? Because that's basically what I am." Her anger rose disproportionate to the offense, and she tried to keep her voice controlled. "The hospital thinks so, anyway, as they have kept me employed there for five years. They consider it to be a real job when they pay me."
For a moment, Lucinda and Michael both seemed stunned into silence.”
― Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

“Always stand up for yourself. Don’t take crap from anyone. No one in this world is more important than you are.”
― Anonymous

“Father... I understand what you're implying. In which case...
effective immediately...
... I relinquish the Tenth Seat on the Council of Ten!
As of now...
...I am simply Erina Nakiri!"
"What the...?! You're kidding me!
You're seriously throwing away the Tenth Seat?!"
"Whoa!"
"W-well, I have to!
If I don't, then I can't say that I am truly their friend to the bottom of my heart!”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 24 [Shokugeki no Souma 24]