Quotes About Rejection In Life

#1. Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow. - Author: Sara Zarr

#2. There's no blade in the world as sharp as rejection. - Author: Toni Sorenson

#3. In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection. - Author: Farrah Gray

#4. The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. - Author: Akash Lal Karotia

#5. It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection. - Author: Julian Ovenden

#6. Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore. - Author: Geneen Roth

#7. It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance. - Author: Claire North

#8. Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection. - Author: Tavis Smiley

#9. There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. - Author: T.L. Rese

#10. You don't have to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to want more than just having a job and muddling through life. I want you to find a passion you believe in strongly enough to risk humiliation and rejection. - Author: Kate Klise

#11. Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice. - Author: Anthony Liccione

#12. No matter what challenges you are faced with,or the opinions people have of you,rejection in and of itself from others is not a valid system to predict your future. - Author: Scott Allan

#13. In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life. - Author: Jane Velez-Mitchell

#14. In my new life, no room for a lost boy. - Author: Tori Amos

#15. Things you don't need in your life targets you the most. - Author: Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget ... " But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was ... struggling with all the loss in her life. - Author: Donna Lynn Hope

#17. The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#18. The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. - Author: A.K. Kuykendall

#19. Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes! - Author: Alain De Benoist

#20. It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating. - Author: Liz Tuccillo

#21. I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well. - Author: Jason Clarke

#22. I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. - Author: Ashwin Sanghi

#23. I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me. - Author: Hillary Clinton

#24. The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce. - Author: Stephanie Klein

#25. 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. - Author: Jack Canfield

#26. 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. - Author: Pamela Cummins

#27. 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. - Author: Nina George

#28. Don't look back with tears, look forward with joy; and grab every bit of happiness you can. Don't waste your life being afraid to try new things, and don't be afraid of rejection, be afraid of rejecting what you know is right, in your heart. - Author: Pippa Franks

#29. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. - Author: Liz Tuccillo

#30. Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear? - Author: Elton John

#31. Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small. - Author: Laurie Helgoe

#32. 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. - Author: Dorothy Day

#33. He was lying there on his death bed, and he asked for her as his last wish.
She came with tears in her eyes. He held her hand and said with a smile," I wish I died daily", And then a flat line. - Author: Nishikant

#34. I've learned something peculiar in my life, every time rejection comes on my way; my break through shows up. Now I'm sort of enjoying rejection, so bring it on, I'm ready to celebrate my break through and I'm grateful to those who reject me. - Author: Euginia Herlihy

#35. Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong. - Author: David Harsanyi

#36. 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. - Author: Alexandra Petri

#37. Rejection is the run in the pantyhose of life. - Author: C.E. McLean

#38. I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day. - Author: Philippa Gregory

#39. There are billions of people in this world that don't believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don't have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are. - Author: Daniel Willey

#40. Investigation was like a series of job interviews. Getting the door slammed in your face at every attempt wasn't the exciting life of the detective portrayed on film or television. - Author: Kenneth Eade

#41. 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. - Author: Lauren Mackler

#42. Every day, the pain of that moment has scored through me. The humiliation and anger and misery and rejection. So many emotions that churn over me, always forcing me to feel it all fresh again and again - never in my life had I felt so ugly and unwanted. - Author: Carrie Ryan

#43. You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else. - Author: Stephen Collins

#44. For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.
And then, she happened one more time in his head. - Author: Nishikant

#45. 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. - Author: Irvin D. Yalom

#46. 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. - Author: Henry Rollins