Quotes About Rejection And Success

#1. The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.

Randy Gage

#2. (T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college ... Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

Jincy Willett

#3. Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look back, and see you've been used to cut a path, mark a trail.

Bob Thurber

#4. In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

Donatella Versace

#5. It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

Maureen Dowd

#6. Remember that with every rejection comes success because it's not in the results, but in the process of learning to write that makes you the best writer you can be at this moment in time.

P.B. Azeltine

#7. When we know Christ, it should show in our overflow, regardless of our relative success or discouragement in the face of rejection.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

Celine Dion

#9. Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

Anthony Robbins

#10. As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Steven Chu

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.

Auliq Ice

#14. Are we all not knights and ladies of the road?
For all the world's our territory,
We have our exits and entrances,
Experiencing both rejection and acceptance,
And each in his time
Must joust with one
To advance to the other.

Ronald Solberg

#15. I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.

Emma Roberts

#16. I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

Fred Saberhagen

#17. The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#18. 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

#19. The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

Akash Lal Karotia

#20. He spoke in a calm and measured voice, and a small part of me found myself falling for him. This wasn't just a physical thing anymore. The man had strength of self and character, and damn if I didn't love it.

Karina Halle

#21. Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

Bill Gates

#22. Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

Gilbert Morris

#23. 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

#24. You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

Nava Atlas

#25. A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Bo Bennett

#26. No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods."
"Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown ...

Charles M. Schulz

#27. 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

#28. God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

Imelda Marcos

#29. I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

Alissa Nutting

#30. Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don't be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your Yes!

Michelle Moore

#31. Writing a journal article combines all the elements that deter motivation: The probability of success is low; the likelihood of criticism and rejection is high; and the outcome, even if successful, isn't always rewarding.

Paul J. Silvia

#32. There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

Buck Rodgers

#33. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.

Alessandra Torre