Rejection Quotes

• 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

• I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

  

  James Lee Burke
  • Lost
  • Rejection

• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Angry
  • Nasty
  • Letters

• There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Time
  • Rejection

• Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Unity
  • Rejection

• Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection
  • Bewildering

• If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Judging

• I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Rejection

• The men who use Bumble appreciate a confident woman, a woman who has a voice. A lot of men suffer from insecurity and fear rejection, too. Bumble removes that fear, as they don't have to make the first move, so it benefits both men and women.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

  

  Derek Luke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

  

  Ellen Muth
  • She
  • Father
  • Rejection

• No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Money
  • Frustration
  • Rejection

• I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Taken

• There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Doors
  • Rejection
  • Opens

• Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

  

  J. B. Jackson
  • Death
  • Reform
  • Restoration

• I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.

  

  David Nevins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

  

  William Shatner
  • Risk
  • Born
  • Stranger

• As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .

  

  C. I. Scofield
  • Good
  • Death
  • Grace

• Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • People
  • Rejection

• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Personality
  • Silence
  • Ride

• 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

• Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • Rejection

• The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

  

  Leah Pipes
  • Rejection

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