Rejection Quotes

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Rejection reveals your character.

It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

Rejection is good for the soul.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.

My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.