Rejection Quotes
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
Carol Leifer -
I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.
Jennie Garth
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All of us have the potential to be an Absalom, and all of us have the potential to be a David. Absalom felt rejected by his father, David, so he took revenge by seeking to usurp his father’s sphere of authority. David felt rejected by Absalom, but he allowed that rejection to keep him soft and crying out to God.
Bob Sorge -
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston -
I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
Jack Roy -
I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
Rumi -
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
Monica Raymund -
I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.
Sarah Steele
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There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.
Emily V. Gordon -
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 -
The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed
Romano Prodi -
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 Black Flag -
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?
Hal Duncan -
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
Kevin Feige
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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.
Farrah Gray -
I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.
Esther Renay Dean -
My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
Rupert Penry-Jones -
The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.
Michele Lee -
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Sigmund Freud -
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
Joseph Murray
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It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
Adrian Tan -
Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
Kate Morton -
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
Sandra Oh