Rejection Quotes - Page 6

• Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Vegas, Tunnels

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• I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Want, Want Me

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• Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

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• My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.

  Sherry Lansing

  Giving Up, Moving, Intelligent

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, One Day, Auctions

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• Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Hell, Slips

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• I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Writing, Careers

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• The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Acceptance, Support, Unity

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.373, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

  Edmund White

  Hurt, Rejected, Felt

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• I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

  Johnny Cash

  Heart, Bathroom

  Song: Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart, Album: At Folsom Prison

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

  Dana Stabenow

  Way, Embrace

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• Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Attitude, Ostriches, Effort

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.

  Emma Roberts

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Beauty, Negative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Agents, Billions

  Source: newwest.net

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• I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

  Anton Chekhov

  Reading, Years, Editors

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• I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Heart, Love Is

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• Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Dream, Pride, Upset

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• All the Hardships. All the Mistakes. All the Rejections. All the Pain. All the times you Questioned why. All of these things have given Birth to the Wisdom and Strength that will Help you Shine your Light on the World, Even in the darkest of Hours.

  Judith Orloff

  Pain, Mistake, Light

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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• Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

  Chris Pine

  Growing Up, Supportive, Actors

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

  Joel Osteen

  Inspiration

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.

  Mastin Kipp

  Powerful, Persistence, Denial

  "Do What Scares You & See The Miracle That Awaits!" by Mastin Kipp, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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