Rejection Quotes

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

I don't care. I'll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created X-Men!

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge.

When you reject knowledge, God rejects you.