Quotes About Failure And Rejection

#1. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

Jonathan Tucker

#2. The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Brian Tracy

#3. Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

Kenneth Wapnick

#4. Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Jim Valvano

#5. For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure ... Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

Barack Obama

#6. Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Ana Hart

#7. I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

Pierce Brown

#8. My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.

Dorothy Day

#9. By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Stephen King

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

Jeffrey Gitomer

#11. Don't hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.

Martha Beck

#12. 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

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

Malti Bhojwani

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

Mike Birbiglia

#15. 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

#16. Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

Agatha Christie

#17. We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Henry Rollins

#18. My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope ... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

Claude Monet

#19. The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

Darin Strauss

#20. The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Seth Godin

#21. In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

Criss Jami

#22. Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Kathy Ireland

#23. To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Anita Shreve

#24. Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or ... you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

Destiny Booze

#25. I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Amy Tan

#26. Don't worry about failure or rejection; no one knows what they're doing anyway.

Marty Rubin

#27. Remember: The fear of something is always scarier than the thing itself. Yes, there is pain and rejection. But the greatest failure is to never risk at all.

Jeff Goins

#28. Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.

Miya Yamanouchi

#29. I realized that for my own part, I was much more likely to take risks, reach out to others, and expose myself to rejection and failure when I felt happy. When I felt unhappy, I felt defensive, touchy, and self-conscious.

Gretchen Rubin

#30. It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

John Robert Seeley

#31. Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines.

Morten Hogsberg

#32. 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. "What if..." "If only... " "I wonder what would have..."

You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.

Trevor Noah

#33. From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views.
- Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic

Arthur Conan Doyle

#34. Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.

Richard Castle

#35. 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.

LouAnne Johnson