Rejection Quotes

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

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

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

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

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.

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

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

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.

Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

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

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

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face 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.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

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

Be stimulated by rejection

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

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.

Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

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

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

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

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

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

"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."

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

But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

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.

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

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.