Top Rejection Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Rejection quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ray Bradbury
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of Roselyn Sanchez
This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.
- Roselyn Sanchez
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Image of Chazz Palminteri
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.
- Chazz Palminteri
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Image of Tavis Smiley
Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.
- Tavis Smiley
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Image of Mary Gaitskill
Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.
- Mary Gaitskill
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Image of Warren Zevon
Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.
- Warren Zevon
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Image of David Bentley Hart
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.
- David Bentley Hart
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Image of Dana Stabenow
To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.
- Dana Stabenow
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Image of Doris Grumbach
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.
- Doris Grumbach
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Image of Leo Strauss
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.
- Leo Strauss
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Image of David Dellinger
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
- David Dellinger
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Image of John Robert Seeley
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.
- John Robert Seeley
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Image of James Lee Burke
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
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Image of Elaine Paige
Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
- Elaine Paige
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Image of Alasdair MacIntyre
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition
- Alasdair MacIntyre
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Image of Derek A. Cuthbert
Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.
- Derek A. Cuthbert
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Image of Melanie Griffith
I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
- Melanie Griffith
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Image of Diahann Carroll
The lesson that I would hope everyone would learn quite early in their career is don't take it personally. Whatever it is that happens, you're accepted for a role or rejected for a role of whatever, don't take it personally. It's part of the business and the person that is either hiring or firing-that's their business. That's what they are there for and it has nothing to do with how you feel about ... It has to do with someone else's perception of should you do this particular part, so just don't take it personally,. The business is really about rejection, so don't take it personally.
- Diahann Carroll
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Image of Neil Sedaka
They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.
- Neil Sedaka
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Image of Samuel Morse
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
- Samuel Morse
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Image of Robert Herjavec
Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.
- Robert Herjavec
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Image of Pat McBride
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.
- Pat McBride
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Image of Ethel M. Dell
What we once fling away never comes again to us.
- Ethel M. Dell
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Image of Audrey Flack
If you can't paint, paint Big.
- Audrey Flack
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Image of Valmiki
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
- Valmiki
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Image of Sol Stern
Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.
- Sol Stern
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Image of Patrick Kavanagh
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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Image of Penelope Douglas
It's the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you're only brave enough to say so. It's a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you're too afraid to risk the rejection.
- Penelope Douglas
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Image of Julianne MacLean
He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.
- Julianne MacLean
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Image of J. B. Jackson
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
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Image of Philippa Gregory
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
- Philippa Gregory
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Image of R. O. Blechman
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.
- R. O. Blechman
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Image of Max Anders
Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.
- Max Anders
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Image of Robert Draper
As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.
- Robert Draper
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Image of Roy Clarke
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.
- Roy Clarke
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Image of John Whisenant
We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.
- John Whisenant
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Image of Eric Walters
Rejection is the natural course of things.
- Eric Walters
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Image of Kathy Ireland
Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
- Kathy Ireland
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Image of April Rose
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.
- April Rose
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Image of Liza Campbell
Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.
- Liza Campbell
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Image of Vantile Whitfield
Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.
- Vantile Whitfield
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Image of Eva Mendes
Rejection is good for the soul.
- Eva Mendes
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Image of Aisha Hinds
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.
- Aisha Hinds
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Image of Oprah Winfrey
I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Image of William Boyd
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
- William Boyd
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Image of Tony Blair
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.
- Tony Blair
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Image of William Shatner
What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
- William Shatner
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Image of Beth Moore
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)
- Beth Moore
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Image of Georges Bataille
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
- Georges Bataille
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Image of Paul Simon
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
- Paul Simon
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