Quotes About Getting Turned Down

#1. The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Joely Richardson

#2. Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These

Nick Hornby

#3. When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

Rodney Dangerfield

#4. I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

Rebecca Lobo

#5. What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

J.I. Packer

#6. I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Candice Bergen

#7. I really like Halal food.

Hannibal Buress

#8. I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some.

Rachel Cohn

#9. The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

Rain

#10. Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay for it in our bridges, we pay for it in the quality of our lives. "

Richard Grossinger

#11. I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

Valerie Ann Worwood

#12. I didn't accept your sacrifice. I turned it down." I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips.
"Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?

Becca Fitzpatrick