Top 100 Rejection Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.
Marina And The Diamonds
#4. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Henri Nouwen
#6. Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
George Santayana
#8. He won't say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him.
Jennifer Crusie
#9. Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.
Ana Hart
#10. We may reject someone because we think we are better than them, or we may reject someone because we are angry at them. The difference between healthy boundaries and rejection is the condition of our heart and why we are placing space between us and the other person.
Heather Bixler
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Rejection is a part of any man's life. If you can't accept and move past rejection, or at least use it as writing material - you're not a real man.
-Master Jiraiya
Masashi Kishimoto
#15. Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
James Altucher
#17. Rejection is the run in the pantyhose of life.
C.E. McLean
#18. I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of being adored or people kind of bending over backwards for them. I see a lot of girls who aren't used to rejection because of that, and now all of a sudden they drop out of the business.
April Rose
#19. Rejection is my fuel for awesome. Every no is one step closer to a yes.
Rene Gilley
#20. Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
Paul Russo
#21. Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
Jojo Moyes
#22. A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
Bo Bennett
#23. Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.
Angelica Hopes
#24. Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
Morrissey
#25. Rejection is just a test to see how much you really want something.
Kristy Brown
#26. Rejection is Spirit's protection. What is for you will not go past you.
Collette Baron-Reid
#27. Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit
Miguel Ruiz
#28. Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
Angela Cartwright
#29. Rejection is a blade to the heart. It's the worst kind of pain.
Toni Sorenson
#30. Here's what I think: it's one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it's an entirely different thing when it arrives.
Autumn Doughton
#31. I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
Laura Kightlinger
#32. I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.
Joan Rivers
#33. The problem with rejection is that it feels imposed even when it's earned.
Anthony Marra
#35. Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.
Robin Black
#36. The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
Edward De Bono
#37. To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#38. Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
Kathy Ireland
#39. As an actor, rejection is a big part of it, and I've had a lot of it. So when there's something that you really want to do, it's so great to have someone to be a part of a team as great as this team is.
Nick Jonas
#40. Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
Brian Tracy
#41. Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.
Erin O'Connor
#42. Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!
Sylvia Plath
#43. Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.
M.F. Moonzajer
#44. Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.
Matthew Hussey
#45. Rejection is the most difficult thing to over come !!
Harsha
#46. The great thing about rejection is that it doesn't matter how many times you get rejected. All that needs to happen is if for one person to tell you 'yes' and then everybody else can go f*** themselves.
Chelsea Handler
#47. Rejection is inevitable. The goal is to minimize it.
Keith Grafman
#48. Rejection is the natural course of things.
Eric Walters
#49. It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.
Irena A. Hoffman
#50. A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.
Zig Ziglar
#52. Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
#53. What you perceive as rejection is really someone making choices based on their needs at that time
Scott Allan
#54. 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
#55. The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.
Dorothy Rowe
#56. Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.
Molly Crabapple
#57. Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.
Paul Travis
#59. Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.
Bryant McGill
#61. I believe that rejection is a blessing because it's the universe's way of telling you that there's something better out there.
Michelle Phan
#62. Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
Kate Morton
#64. As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V.E Schwab
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.
Sigmund Freud
#73. 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
#74. An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
Bo Bennett
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
David Antin
#79. I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?
Rod Stewart
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
Susan Jeffers
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
Stephen Covey
#88. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
Albert Camus
#89. 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
#90. Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.
Mary Cassatt
#91. 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
#92. They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.
Neil Sedaka
#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. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. In most important ways, this world is explicitly antibureaucratic: that is, it evinces an explicit rejection of virtually all the core values of bureaucracy.
David Graeber
#99. If one refuses to receive baptism, it is evidence of unbelief and a rejection of God's commands.
Jordan Cooper
#100. 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.
Pippa Franks
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