Rejection Quotes

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.

Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done.

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

She use to knock me out until her face broke out.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

I think the wave of social media rejection is coming. I think there will be a big reaction against it. It's just like sugar- - mean, I loved it as a kid.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Be gentle with everyone you meet; we all have experienced pain, hurt, anger, and rejection. Be kind to everyone's spirit; you have no idea what healing your light can afford.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

It's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed. But when you pulled the stars from the heavens, it got so hard to see.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.