Do Not Fear Rejection Quotes

#1. If you do not fear rejection, then you are free to take risks.

Art Hochberg

#2. I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

Sean Harris

#3. The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

David L. Conroy

#4. We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved.

Adelyn Birch

#6. Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns
fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns
seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

Irvin D. Yalom

#7. My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,
but what I reject is more numerous,
denser, more demanding than before.
A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

Wislawa Szymborska

#8. I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

Daniel Breaker

#9. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.

Tessa Afshar

#10. I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#11. Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Monica Raymund

#12. Threesomes call us to confront jealousy, insecurity, fear of rejection, and a host of of other dark seeds inside ourselves. Three-ways can be huge growth experiences that encourage us to drop our insecurities and discover how wholly lovable we really are.

Victoria Vantoch

#13. As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Carol Leifer

#14. Your belief in love wasn't strong enough to overcome your fear of rejection.

Mulan

#15. When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Derek A. Cuthbert

#17. If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes.

Jeanette Coron

#18. If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

Lauren Mackler

#19. Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.

Ariana Carruth

#20. I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Mike Birbiglia

#21. Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

James Altucher

#22. The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.

Malti Bhojwani

#23. A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

Warren Farrell

#24. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

Trevor Noah

#25. As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

Tucker Max

#26. Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

Steven Pressfield

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

Jeffrey Gitomer

#28. If you do good things only because you fear punishment or rejection if you don't, does it really count? Think about it. Are they real choices or are you being held hostage?

Kimberly Giles

#29. I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal ... you hope for.

John Farrar

#30. All upset is a fear of rejection.

Bryant McGill

#31. Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

Susane Colasanti

#32. Saul took their fear of the Philistines personally. Rejection always takes things personally, becoming defensive, and thus never allows us to see or hear things properly. Remember, the most commons signs of rejection are being defensive and taking things personally.

Anthony Hulsebus