Rejection Quotes

• If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Growth
  • Catholic

• Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • She
  • Impact
  • Appreciated

• You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Job
  • Rejection

• Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

  

  William Boyd
  • Rejection
  • Tolerate
  • Humankind

• The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

  

  David Steinberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

  

  Marlon James
  • Romantic
  • Rejection

• One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Money

• It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

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

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Remember
  • Fear
  • Refuse

• I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Crying
  • Rejection

• I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Kids
  • Career

• Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Heart
  • Rejection

• Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

  

  Johnny Isakson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Science
  • Rejection

• Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.

  

  David Gates Bread
  • Found
  • Next
  • Goodbye

• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Different
  • Power

• I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Showy displays of love don't come naturally to everyone. They don't come naturally to me. They also come with a risk: a risk of rejection, being made to feel silly, or making yourself into a spectacle.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Risk
  • Silly
  • Rejection

• The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Failure
  • Rejection

• What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • True
  • Criticism
  • Rejection

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