Rejection Quotes

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Meaningful Life, Life Is

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.

  Bernie Glassman

  Generosity, Giving, Arise

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.128, Penguin

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

  Robert Genn

  Accepting, Rejected

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.108, Studio Beckett Publications

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Fake, Promise, Rejected

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 12, 2014

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

  Sylvester Stallone

  Motivational, Military, Ears

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• Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Frustration

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2016

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

  Sasha Grey

  Trying, Keep Trying

  Interview with Davy Rothbart, grantland.com. December 21, 2011.

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

  John Powell

  Acceptance, Atmosphere, Soil

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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

  James Lee Burke

  Rejects You, Inventory, Rejected

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• 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

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

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• A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Adversity, Wrestling

  Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, Fawcett Books

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

  Sylvia Plath

  Encouraging, Trying, Show Me

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• 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.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Impatient, Impatience, Tendencies

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Rejects You, Realizing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.17, Random House

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Addresses, Failing, Indication

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• Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Want, Rejected, What You Want

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• Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

  Tavis Smiley

  Sometimes, Life Is, Redirection

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• To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

  John Donne

  Body

  John Donne, Paul M. Oliver (2002). “John Donne: Selected Letters”, p.35, Psychology Press

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• This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Editors, Appreciate

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• 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.

  Stephen Collins

  Believe, Needs, Actors

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• Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

  Agatha Christie

  Heart, Broken, Said

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• We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Mean, Self

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Acceptance, Favourite

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