Top 100 Quotes About Rejection
#1. She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.
John Mayer
#2. Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
Patrick Kavanagh
#3. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.
Alexandra Petri
#4. It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Caleb Cushing
#5. One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
#6. Powerful men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. There
Margaret Atwood
#7. I'm not even that upset about the rejection any more. What bothers me most is that I haven't got to the end of my story, and I can't start over with someone else, it's too hard.
Paula Hawkins
#8. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are
Thomas Beatie
#9. most people interpret silence as rejection!
Ali Vali
#10. I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.
Rod Stewart
#11. It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean you should give up on yourself or let go of the amazing dreams you have on the inside.
Jamie Larbi
#13. After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
Mason Cooley
#14. Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
Kirk Cameron
#15. With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
Olivia DeJonge
#16. I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.
Bitsie Tulloch
#17. Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.
Sigmund Freud
#18. He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.
Kenneth Eade
#19. 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
#20. It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they're writing at all. To have one's writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.
Elizabeth Clements
#21. Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
Sasha Grey
#22. Neither of us wanted to say it first. But our two souls had become one in a realm no one else could venture into. The immortal coil of passion had wrapped around us forever. It had begun with lust and attraction and blossomed into so much more. Fear of rejection kept us from declaring it.
Sherry Soule
#23. Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.
Charlie Munger
#24. I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
Anita Diament
#25. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.
Pamela Cummins
#26. Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone.
Frank Zappa
#27. Be yourself. And if you're remotely interesting, you're bound to face a lot of rejection.
Maggie Young
#29. An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
Bo Bennett
#31. By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#32. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
Dani Shapiro
#34. Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.
Michael Shermer
#35. Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
Fausto Cercignani
#36. Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses ... that's also the way you win over constituency.
Johnny Isakson
#37. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#38. Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#39. But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.
Anna Maxted
#40. The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
Rabindranath Tagore
#41. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Marilyn Monroe
#42. Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.
Susane Colasanti
#43. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.
Sierra McCormick
#44. My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
David Antin
#45. I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?
Rod Stewart
#46. What better way to exorcise rejection demons than to screw the person who rejected you?
Nick Hornby
#47. It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
Helena Blavatsky
#48. Because I am fully aware of what the word "fat" means - what it really means, when you say it, or think it. It's not just a simple, descriptive word like "brunette" or "34." It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.
Caitlin Moran
#49. With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone.
Auliq Ice
#50. If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.
R. O. Blechman
#51. Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera
#52. His words make sense. He's not the man for me. This is what he meant, and it makes his rejection to accept ... almost. I can live with this. I understand.
E.L. James
#53. It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.
Jack Johnson
#54. Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.
Kimberlee Roth
#55. You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.
Jennifer Armentrout
#56. Ritsu... Do you like Oda?" More than me?
"Yes.
Junko
#57. The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
James Altucher
#58. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
Bryant McGill
#59. Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.
Charles F. Glassman
#60. My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#61. To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even though people make fun of you, persecute you - or even kill you!
Billy Graham
#62. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#63. Changing yourself into who you think someone else wants is hurting yourself. It's a rejection of who you are, and that's toxic. You're committing emotional suicide." I
Jennifer Coburn
#64. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
Susan Jeffers
#65. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.
Marina And The Diamonds
#66. Rejection isn't a big deal. There are a lot worse things that could happen to me. I could be a homeless war veteran without any legs or I could be blind.
Roosh V
#67. 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
#68. Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
P.D. James
#69. 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.
Naomie Harris
#70. 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.
Gloria Steinem
#71. I realise that love isn't painful. It's the not having love that hurts. The rejection. The betrayal. The loneliness. They hurt. Love doesn't. The
Sue Fortin
#72. To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
Stephen Covey
#73. I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#74. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
Albert Camus
#75. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Henri Nouwen
#76. Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.
Dianna Agron
#77. Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.
Mary Cassatt
#78. Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.
Robert Grudin
#79. Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
Ayn Rand
#80. The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebration of the world.
William Barrett
#81. They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.
Neil Sedaka
#82. Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
Alain De Botton
#83. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.
Nina George
#84. 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.
Patrick Stewart
#85. It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.
Claude Monet
#86. 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
#87. Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
William Boyd
#88. Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
Octavia Butler
#90. All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
Brad Holland
#91. We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#92. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.
E.L. James
#93. 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
#94. Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.
Jim Butcher
#95. The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.
Peter Manseau
#96. In a world of scarcity, opportunities don't present themselves in bunches, and the decisions people face are between approach and avoidance, acceptance or rejection.
Barry Schwartz
#97. You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor Swift
#98. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
Samuel Morse
#99. Learning to trust God when He says "no" is a very important step in handling rejection. This is because God's character is not only seen in what He does, but in what He does not do.
Jamie Larbi
#100. Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful.
Lauren Dane
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