Rejection Quotes
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. - E. James 'Jim' Rohn
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. - Walter Lippmann
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. - Sigmund Freud
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. - Abba Eban
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. - Lisa Alther
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. - George Eliot
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. - Confucius
Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn How to accept a better in his turn. - Lord Byron
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. - Norman Vincent Peale
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy
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. - Michael York
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. - Don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. - James Lee Burke
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. - Ralph Waldo
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. - Paul Sweeney
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information. - Bo Bennett
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. - Charles Baudelaire
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. - Franz Kafka
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. - Ursula K. Le Guin
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. - E. M. Cioran
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
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. - Jonathan Raban
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. - Earl G. Graves
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential. - Jessamyn West
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. - Earl G. Graves