Rejection Quotes
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.
Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.
Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.
Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.
I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
