Rejection Success Quotes

#1. 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

#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. The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. 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

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

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Anthony Robbins

#7. He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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

Randy Gage

#9. 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

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

Akash Lal Karotia

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

Auliq Ice

#12. It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

Jacki Weaver

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. How could you let him do this? (Shahara)
I know you're not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn't raise the embryo. You did. It's what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you'd left him a scared little snot-nose, he'd still be living in your basement. (Vik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#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. History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#18. Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

John Donne

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

Bo Bennett

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. He grins. Unbelievable how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him and how rare and beautiful is that?

Cynthia Hand

#26. We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#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. He followed me around the edge of the bed. I've been told my lips can make a girl forget just about anything. You should try it out.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#29. It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Margaret Hamilton

#30. 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

#31. There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Barks

#32. Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

David Porush

#33. 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

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

Gilbert Morris

#35. In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

John Piper