A word about rejection

“Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.”

“reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.”

“Sherpas aren’t supposed to get altitude illness […]. Those who do become sick […] will often be blacklisted from future employment on expeditions.”

“Your dear love, Bathsheba, is such a vast thing beside your pity that the loss of your pity as well as your love is no great addition to my sorrow, nor does the grain of your pity make it sensibly less.”

“Got up here and found out . . . not only couldn’t you get a job . . . you couldn’t find no place to live. I thought I was in freedom. Shhh. Colored folks living down there on the riverbanks in whatever kind of shelter they could find for themselves.”

“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”

“Olly’s rejection has made me feel like a little girl again. It reminded me why I stopped paying attention to the world before.”

“Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.”

“The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.”

“If she do bid me pack, I’ll give her thanks

As though she bid me stay by her a week.

If she deny to wed, I’ll crave the day

When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.”

“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. ‘What if . . .’ ‘If only . . .’ ‘I wonder what would have . . .’ You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”

We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (or even someone unimportant) to you rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Feel any feelings that go with rejection; talk about your thoughts; but don’t forfeit your self-esteem to another’s disapproval or rejection of who you are or what you have done.

Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

Don’t reject yourself, and don’t give so much power to other people’s rejection of you. It isn’t necessary.

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

Love defeats the devil, but rejection opens a door of opportunity for the devil to do an evil work.

Rejection is one of the worst, most neglected and most common wounds.

I encourage people to remember that “no” is a complete sentence.

“No” is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.

If you have done something inappropriate or you need to solve a problem or change a behavior, then take appropriate steps to take care of yourself. But don’t reject yourself, and don’t give so much power to other people’s rejection of you. It isn’t necessary

If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

“I’ve been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess, you don’t.”

“That fatal May morning when Geneviève murmured, ‘I love you, but I think I love Boris best,’ told on me at last. I had never imagined that it could become more than I could endure. Outwardly tranquil, I had deceived myself.”

“She gathers her papers and moves away as STEVE, arms still outstretched, turns toward the camera. His image is in black and white, and the grain is nearly broken. It looks like one of the pictures they use for psychological testing, or some strange beast, a monster.”

“Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.”

″ But to rush at once into despotism because there is a bare possibility of anarchy ensuing from the rejection, or from what is yet more visionary, the small delay that would be occasioned by a revision and correction of the proposed system of government is so superlatively weak, so fatally blind, that it is astonishing any person of common understanding should suffer such an imposition to have the least influence on his judgment.”

“What was this? Rejection? Was it really this tangible? All I could think about was that if I could be hurt like this then surely I could also cause it in others. This consoled me.”

“They must be considered as a whole; they must be accepted or rejected as a whole.”

“Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what’s been said to me.”

“Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.”

Rejection is the natural course of things.
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Eric Walters

Rejection reveals your character.
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Robert G. Allen

Rejection is God’s protection.
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Jillian Michaels

Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.
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Janeane Garofalo

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.
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Madonna Ciccone

Rejection is good for the soul.
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Eva Mendes

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
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Bernard Branson

This is my motto: Rejection is God’s protection.
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Roselyn Sanchez

People’s Rejection Can Be God’s Direction For You
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Farshad Asl

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.
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Paul Travis

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another
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Chuck Todd

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
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Valmiki

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
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Kate Morton

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.
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Bryant H. McGill

There’s nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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James Lee Burke

Rejection is one thing — but rejection from a fool is cruel.
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Steven Morrissey

Rejection is nature’s way of telling you to write a better book.
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James D. Macdonald

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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Jeanette Winterson

Rejection is one thing — but rejection from a fool is cruel.
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Morrissey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
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Sasha Grey

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
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James Altucher

To be successful you have to deal with CRAP. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.
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Ryan Blair

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.
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Jay Asher

I don’t care. I’ll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created X-Men!
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LIZ

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.
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Molly Crabapple

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
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Kathy Ireland

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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James Lee Burke

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and ‘Electra Heart’ is my response to that. It is a frank album.
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Marina and the Diamonds

Rejection, though—it could make the loss of someone you weren’t even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
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Deb Caletti

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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Sylvester Stallone

Rejection process is not fun. It’s the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.
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Jonah Lehrer

I was learning the craft; I didn’t study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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Pierce Brown

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
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Adrian Tan

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
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Susan Jeffers

Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
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Paul Russo

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn’t affect me; I’d just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
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Emily Watson

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.
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Isaac Asimov

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Edward de Bono

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model’s career, as ironic as that sounds. It’s how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.
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Erin O’Connor

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn’t have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
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Angela Cartwright

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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George Santayana

Rejection is part of the process, so you can’t let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, ‘Sheltering Rain,’ was translated into 11 languages.
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Jojo Moyes

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn’t writing.
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Kirby Larson

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
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Andrew Bacevich

The times in my life when I’ve been my thinnest, I’ve been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.
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Stephanie Klein

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.
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Michael York

Rejection’s just something that you need to get used to and you need to accept it and you need to know there’s always going to be someone that’s smarter, prettier, younger, or knows the right person over you.
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April Rose

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it’s not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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V. E. Schwab

I’m tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let’s cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection.
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Ralph Keyes

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. «Every no gets me closer to a yes,» was the saying I used to use.
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Mark Cuban

All great innovations are built on rejections.
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Sylvia Plath

Don’t let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.
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Ashley Tisdale

When you can’t figure out what to do, it’s time for a nap.
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Mason Cooley

I’m free to give my love, but you’re not the one I’m thinking of.
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Neil Young

You’ve got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
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Jessica Biel

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success
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Robert Foster Bennett

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Henri Nouwen

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
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Chuck Palahniuk

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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Jonathan Raban

Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Billy Joel

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
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W. C. Fields

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn’t all that important to me.
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Lisa Alther

A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
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Karolina Kurkova

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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Anita Diament

I’ve discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’
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Saul Bellow

Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
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Emile M. Cioran

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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Carl Sandburg

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
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Marilyn Monroe

You get used to the rejection and you don’t take it personally.
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Daniel Craig

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
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Bo Bennett

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
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Bo Bennett

Well actually I don’t think it’s a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God’s grace.
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Rick Warren

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
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Beth Ditto

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
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Linus Pauling

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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Bharati Mukherjee

We did not start a fight with America, and we don’t want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
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Hassan Nasrallah

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
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Kirk Cameron

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
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Helena Blavatsky

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
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Charles Stanley

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
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Taylor Swift

One of life’s fundamental truths states, ‘Ask and you shall receive.’ As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Jack Canfield

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.
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Johnny Isakson

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
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John Paul DeJoria

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
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Liam Neeson

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.
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Carol Vorderman

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, ‘You know what? You’re imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don’t accept them. I’m going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.’
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Glenn Greenwald

A lot of people ask me, ‘How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?’ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.
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Taylor Swift

Everyone fears rejection.
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Derek Jeter

Successful people reject rejection.
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John C. Maxwell

Be stimulated by rejection
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Bob Gill

Acting is a life of rejection.
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Lauren Bacall

Don’t misinterpret God’s silence as rejection.
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T. B. Joshua

Any perceived ‘rejection’ is simply a ‘re-direction’.
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The Truth

Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.
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Fawad Afzal Khan

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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Henry Rollins

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.
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Tavis Smiley

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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William Boyd

Dont get discouraged from all the rejection.
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Joey King

Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance.
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Ramesh Lohia

There’s no point in dwelling on rejection.
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Isabel Lucas

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.
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Jaron Lanier

I am Joe’s Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.
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Chuck Palahniuk

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
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MaryJanice Davidson

You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.
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Barry Mann

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.
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Kevin Dutton

Acceptance, under someone else’s terms, is worse than rejection.
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Mary Cassatt

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
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David Dellinger

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
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David T. Dellinger

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
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Monica Raymund

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.
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Miguel Angel Ruiz

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT
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Jack Canfield

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.
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Tony Robbins

I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Truman Capote

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.
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Muqtada al Sadr

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.
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Marv Levy

A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.
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Zig Ziglar

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
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P. D. James

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.
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Robert Herjavec

You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Barry Mann

Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.
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Joel Osteen

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!
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Mary Engelbreit

Don’t get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.
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Vantile Whitfield

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.
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Carolyn McCulley

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.
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Sol Stern

I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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June Jordan

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.
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Max Anders

Influence is a matter of selection — both acceptance and rejection.
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Edward Albee

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Ray Bradbury

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
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David Morrissey

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
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Fausto Cercignani

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
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Charlie Chaplin

Social rejection doesn’t just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.
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Leonard Mlodinow

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
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Laurell K. Hamilton

Gay parenting is a rejection of God’s law engraved in our hearts
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Pope Francis

I don’t really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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Nicholas Hoult

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
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Suzanne Curchod

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Thomas Huxley

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.
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Laura Schlessinger

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.
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Laura Kightlinger

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Jim Valvano

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
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Ayn Rand

Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.
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Matthew Hussey

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection
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lecrae

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

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.
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Dana Stabenow

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of ‘ruining the friendship.
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Greg Behrendt

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
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Richard Winters

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you’re letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
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Brian Tracy

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.
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Charles F. Glassman

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.
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Derek A. Cuthbert

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
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Bryant McGill

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

After rejection — misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
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Mason Cooley

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn’t that also mean you’re indifferent to love?
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Wendy Shalit

It’s not a matter of rejection (of Israel’s existence). Israel is here, present by power.
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Mahmoud al-Zahar

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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Sigmund Freud

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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Anais Nin

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
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Jim Rohn

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
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Stuart Chase

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
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Elaine Paige

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress».
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Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Robert Genn

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

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
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Stephen Covey

The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.
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Randy Gage

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
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Joseph Barbera

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
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John Powell

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.
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Wayne Dyer

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
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Tariq Ramadan

There’s nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Kabir Bedi

In my work, there’s a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
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Marlo Thomas

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
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Louise Brown

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.
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Robert Kiyosaki

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.
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Sue Augustine

A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Warren Farrell

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It’s you.
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Morgan Brittany

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,
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Leo Strauss

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
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David Foster Wallace

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Audre Lorde

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
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Christopher Moore

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
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Roger Ebert

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.
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Craig Benzine

Cicero’s words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.
Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

But so much of being an actor isn’t so great — the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Votes: 0

Douglas Wood

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
Votes: 0

Carol Leifer

When we don’t ask, we don’t let others give. When we fear rejection, we don’t let generosity arise.
Votes: 0

Bernie Glassman

We are always afraid to ask because we aren’t afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection
Votes: 0

Anna R.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
Votes: 0

William Shatner

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.
Votes: 0

Aaron Zigman

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it’s a personal rejection.
Votes: 0

Morgan Brittany

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
Votes: 0

Georges Bataille

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
Votes: 0

Howard Barker

Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.
Votes: 0

M.F. Moonzajer

You can make your own way. It’s about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.
Votes: 0

Jennifer Armentrout

Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.
Votes: 0

Valery Giscard d’Estaing

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.
Votes: 0

Pippa Evans

I’m an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
Votes: 0

Melanie Griffith

Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.
Votes: 0

Susane Colasanti

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
Votes: 0

Rodney Dangerfield

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
Votes: 0

Mike Birbiglia

We actors, we’re a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
Votes: 0

Sandra Oh

It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.
Votes: 0

Harvey Mackay

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
Votes: 0

Daisaku Ikeda

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Votes: 0

Gary Zukav

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection
Votes: 0

Natascha Kampusch

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
Votes: 0

Daniel Breaker

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
Votes: 0

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn’t exist, if you believe it doesn’t.
Votes: 0

Jeffrey Gitomer

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
Votes: 0

David Antin

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it’s also been very hard to handle rejection.
Votes: 0

Patricia Velasquez

When you’re just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it’s fun.
Votes: 0

David Arquette

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Votes: 0

Henri Nouwen

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own?
Votes: 0

Joseph Murray

If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
Votes: 0

Mike Myers

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir

Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Votes: 0

Harrison Ford

Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Votes: 0

Loni Anderson

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.
Votes: 0

Bret Anthony Johnston

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
Votes: 0

Jacob Bronowski

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
Votes: 0

Heather Matarazzo

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.
Votes: 0

Toba Beta

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.
Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They’re like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And I’m like, ‘the end of your industry.
Votes: 0

Ryan Lilly

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
Votes: 0

Rose Byrne

It’s important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.
Votes: 0

Julian Ovenden

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.
Votes: 0

Joshua L. Liebman

Macmillan’s rejection had left him very downcast… Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
Votes: 0

Patrick Kavanagh

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.
Votes: 0

T. Scott McLeod

Love is no conditions. Love is given, despite hurt or rejection. Love is life and breath and touch. Love is helping someone live.
Votes: 0

Misty Upham

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, ‘She looks too healthy,’ which of course translates as, ‘She needs to lose weight.’
Votes: 0

Christina Ricci

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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.
Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
Votes: 0

Jim Gaffigan

Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.
Votes: 0

Miya Yamanouchi

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
Votes: 0

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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.
Votes: 0

Larry Wall

It’s not just an exclamation, but it’s a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
Votes: 0

Patrick Stewart

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.
Votes: 0

Rosalind E. Krauss

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
Votes: 0

Longchenpa

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines.
Votes: 0

Morten Høgsberg

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody’s going down.
Votes: 0

Lance Armstrong

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
Votes: 0

Gail Collins

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Votes: 0

Ron Paul

The real fear isn’t rejection, but that there won’t be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

The next time you feel rejection’s sting, remember God’s words to Samuel: «It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me.» (1 Sam. 8:7)
Votes: 0

Beth Moore

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.
Votes: 0

Henry Parry Liddon

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead.
Votes: 0

Warren Adler

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.
Votes: 0

Pat McBride

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except — due to her rejection of Apollo’s affections — nobody would ever believe her warnings.
Votes: 0

Kara Swisher

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.
Votes: 0

David Ogilvy

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.
Votes: 0

Curious George Brigade

My parents didnt want me to be an actor. They didnt think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
Votes: 0

Rupert Penry-Jones

Understanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
Votes: 0

Aisha Hinds

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That’s how marriages and friendships come apart.
Votes: 0

Helen Van Slyke

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.’
Votes: 0

Jeff Lindsay

I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful — they use nice paper.
Votes: 0

MaryJanice Davidson

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.
Votes: 0

Tony Blair

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
Votes: 0

Tommy Rettig

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.
Votes: 0

Jane Velez-Mitchell

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.
Votes: 0

Caitlin Moran

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.
Votes: 0

Sara Zarr

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.
Votes: 0

E. L. Konigsburg

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.
Votes: 0

Laura Riding

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Votes: 0

Abba Eban

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.
Votes: 0

James Lee Burke

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.
Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That’s a «best practice» rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.
Votes: 0

Richard Pascale

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.
Votes: 0

Faith Sullivan

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection
Votes: 0

Nir Eyal

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.
Votes: 0

Melanie Griffith

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.
Votes: 0

Robert Grudin

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.
Votes: 0

Felipe Perez Roque

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.
Votes: 0

Simon Van Booy

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.
Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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.
Votes: 0

J. B. Jackson

I don’t think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

Be gentle with everyone you meet; we all have experienced pain, hurt, anger, and rejection. Be kind to everyone’s spirit; you have no idea what healing your light can afford.
Votes: 0

Grace Gealey

Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
Votes: 0

Rick Warren

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected — the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
Votes: 0

Nora Roberts

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you’re starting out, because it’s so much rejection and it’s so important to really study and know your craft.
Votes: 0

Bitsie Tulloch

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past… Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
Votes: 0

Susan Blackmore

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Votes: 0

Caleb Cushing

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
Votes: 0

William Sloane Coffin

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.
Votes: 0

Albert Ellis

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it’s a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it’s no judgment on your story and/or talent.
Votes: 0

Nancy Kress

I’m big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there’s sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
Votes: 0

Seth MacFarlane

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.
Votes: 0

Pope John Paul II

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Votes: 0

Caleb Cushing

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.
Votes: 0

Michael Shermer

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn’t awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn’t disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Votes: 0

Vikas Swarup

20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
Votes: 0

Steven Pinker

Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with the rejection slips I have received. Don’t ever give up!
Votes: 0

Jonathan Weeks

Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms.
Votes: 0

Michael Ignatieff

I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Votes: 0

Amy Tan

Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.
Votes: 0

Barack Obama

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.
Votes: 0

George Robinson

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the ‘Saturday Evening Post.’
Votes: 0

Brad Holland

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It’s a whole mess.
Votes: 0

Mila Kunis

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.
Votes: 0

Janet Evanovich

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you’re going to autograph them and sell them at auction.
Votes: 0

James Lee Burke

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.
Votes: 0

Jerry Spinelli

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough… is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God’s grace.
Votes: 0

Dave Hunt

It’s a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.
Votes: 0

John Robert Seeley

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
Votes: 0

A. J. Jacobs

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.
Votes: 0

Doris Grumbach

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.’
Votes: 0

Ellen Muth

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.
Votes: 0

LouAnne Johnson

There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.
Votes: 0

Angelica Hopes

When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing.
Votes: 0

Virginia Mae Axline

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

I didn’t have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you’re rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You’re behind the eight ball when you go in there.
Votes: 0

Robert De Niro

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
Votes: 0

Sam Harris

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who’s brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
Votes: 0

Felicia Day

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.
Votes: 0

Jacques Ellul

I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
Votes: 0

Skeet Ulrich

I’ve had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it’s actually mostly rejection but people think it’s mostly success because they only see your successes — the films that get made.
Votes: 0

Emma Roberts

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
Votes: 0

Pratibha Patil

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.
Votes: 0

John Green

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
Votes: 0

Albert Camus

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they’ve got worse.
Votes: 0

Tom Hodgkinson

It had been fourteen years and I hadn’t had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.
Votes: 0

Lisa Alther

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
Votes: 0

Paul Bloom

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.
Votes: 0

R. O. Blechman

Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.
Votes: 0

Quentin S. Crisp

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban’s enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban’s fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers
Votes: 0

Rob Portman

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who’s in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery
Votes: 0

Robert Montgomery

Only do acting, if you don’t want to do anything else. And know that it’s a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.
Votes: 0

Naomie Harris

Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn’t just psychological; it’s biological. It’s in our cells.
Votes: 0

Steven Pressfield

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Votes: 0

Christopher Lasch

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
Votes: 0

Buck Rodgers

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.
Votes: 0

Stephen King

Swallowing your pride isn’t lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that’s a result that’s worth every rejection you encounter.
Votes: 0

Georgette Mosbacher

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there’s a lot of rejection throughout an actor’s life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
Votes: 0

Stephen Collins

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.»
Votes: 0

Anna Maxted

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.
Votes: 0

Anna Maxted

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Votes: 0

Havelock Ellis

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
Votes: 0

Dani Shapiro

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
Votes: 0

Henry B. Eyring

At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
Votes: 0

Al Pacino

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.
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Anita Shreve

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.
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Brian Tracy

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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Stephen Covey