We Fear Rejection Quotes

#1. When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.

Bernie Glassman

#2. The more we love, the more we fear. Rejection, or what others might think, these are just the beginning. In a perfectly happy relationship, we fear losing the other person to disease or chance.

Jay Bell

#3. We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#4. Your belief in love wasn't strong enough to overcome your fear of rejection.

Mulan

#5. The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

Derek A. Cuthbert

#8. In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

Criss Jami

#9. Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

Joshua L. Liebman

#10. Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

Brian Tracy

#11. Love anyone and everyone, don't fear for rejection. Love is an inner perception, there is only love, no place for rejection.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person. I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail? Who cares if you fail? It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down. If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.

John Rzeznik

#13. Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Brian Tracy

#14. What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself.

Robert Kegan

#15. We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection

Anna R.

#16. After you've found love, and you look back on the path you took to reach it, it all seems a bit silly. We spend so much time fearing rejection, when what we really should fear is not trying at all.

Mitch Rowland

#17. If you do not fear rejection, then you are free to take risks.

Art Hochberg

#18. Never let fear of rejection from others, dictate the respect you show yourself.

Jill Thrussell

#19. Remember: The fear of something is always scarier than the thing itself. Yes, there is pain and rejection. But the greatest failure is to never risk at all.

Jeff Goins

#20. I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

Mark Edward

#21. Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Nir Eyal

#22. 1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

Ruby Wax

#23. 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

#24. Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren't running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.

Elaina Marie

#25. Theres nothing to fear but
fears themselves, such as monsters,
rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
monsters, and oxford commas.

Craig Benzine

#26. I cannot wait to see the BOLD you. Your uniqueness, passion, and purpose is shadowed by fear of rejection. Let YOU face the world boldly...

Assegid Habtewold

#27. 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.

Ray Bradbury

#28. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#29. I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Louise Brown

#30. I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Mike Birbiglia

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

Susane Colasanti

#34. All upset is a fear of rejection.

Bryant McGill

#35. I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal ... you hope for.

John Farrar

#36. If you do good things only because you fear punishment or rejection if you don't, does it really count? Think about it. Are they real choices or are you being held hostage?

Kimberly Giles

#37. Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#38. Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

Steven Pressfield

#39. As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

Tucker Max

#40. 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

#41. A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

Warren Farrell

#42. The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.

Malti Bhojwani

#43. Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

James Altucher

#44. As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Carol Leifer

#45. Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.

Ariana Carruth

#46. 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.

Lauren Mackler

#47. 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

#48. The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

David L. Conroy

#49. Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved.

Adelyn Birch

#50. 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.

Irvin D. Yalom

#51. My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,
but what I reject is more numerous,
denser, more demanding than before.
A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

Wislawa Szymborska

#52. I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

Daniel Breaker

#53. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.

Tessa Afshar

#54. I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

Sean Harris

#55. Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Monica Raymund

#56. Threesomes call us to confront jealousy, insecurity, fear of rejection, and a host of of other dark seeds inside ourselves. Three-ways can be huge growth experiences that encourage us to drop our insecurities and discover how wholly lovable we really are.

Victoria Vantoch