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• I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Used, Ends, Rejected

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• The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Determination, Successful, Differences

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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

  Valmiki

  Victory, Fortune, Misfortunes

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• I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

  Emily Bronte

  Heart, People, Feels

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.490, Penguin

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• 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 Emerson

  Love, Heaven, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

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

  Billy Joel

  Men, Thinking, Wish

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• All great innovations are built on rejections.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Innovation, Rejected, Built

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• 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.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Loneliness, Stress

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.179, Zondervan

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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

  LeCrae

  Acceptance, People, Dies

  "Celeb Chop-Up: Lecrae". Interview with Jason Jordan, usatodayhss.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Science is the search for truth.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Skepticism, International Affairs

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• 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.

  Steven Pressfield

  Cells, Tribes, Evolution

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.87, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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

  Mary Cassatt

  Acceptance, Term

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Doors, Somewhere Else, Arrows

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• Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Writing, Yesterday, Today

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

  Matthew Hussey

  Pain, Regret, Remember

  FaceBook post by Matthew Hussey from Aug 24, 2014

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• One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

  Jillian Michaels

  Protection

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

  Tony Robbins

  Use, Littles, Next

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• 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.'

  Saul Bellow

  Love, Writing, Heart

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• 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.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Games, Moments

  "How Rejection Catalyzed Zuckerberg, Michael Jordan And Other Winners" by Jason Comely, www.businessinsider.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Rejection is the natural course of things.

  Eric Walters

  Natural, Courses

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• Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

  James D. Macdonald

  Book, Writing, Way

  "How To Get Published". nielsenhayden.com. December 6, 2010.

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• So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Struggle, Very Good, Hard To Handle

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

  Albert Camus

  Unity, Artistic Creation, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

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