Rejection Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Morrissey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Melissa Bank
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leigh Brackett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dick Vitale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Klaus Schwab
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Ellis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angela Robinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carol Vorderman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Elizabeth Lease
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ted Dekker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Benjamin Percy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Tracy