Rejected Quotes

• I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

  

  Rebecca Ferguson
  • Dream
  • Ambition
  • Thing

• Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feeling
  • Advice
  • Rejected

• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Message

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Addicts

• In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Order
  • Bother
  • Rejected

• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • People
  • Earth
  • Learn

• My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Book
  • Rejected
  • Bestseller

• I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Bitter

• You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

  

  Paul Lauterbur
  • Writing
  • Term
  • Lasts

• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  

  George Washington
  • Action
  • Purpose
  • Mislead

• My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Romance

• The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Clothes
  • Rejected
  • Emperor

• Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Hate
  • Ideas
  • Enemy

• We offered it, but they rejected it, ... They have no use for it.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • Rejected
  • Offered

• People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Want
  • Rejected

• C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Attention
  • Actors
  • Applause

• It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Future
  • Opinions
  • Rejected

• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Tough
  • Winner

• I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

  

  Michael York
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Detours

• There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • Rejected
  • Bigotry
  • Anti-Semitic

• The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Writing
  • Keys
  • Magazines

• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce
  • Children
  • School
  • Father

• The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

  

  Willie Soon
  • Evidence
  • Hallmark
  • Plausible

• To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Style
  • Rejected
  • Improper

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