Rejection Quotes - Page 9

• Don't let the sun go down on me.

  Elton John

  Forgiveness, Anger, Angry Man

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, 1974

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• "Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.

  Alexandra Potter

  Eyebrows, Careers, Trying

  "Don't You Forget About Me". Book by Alexandra Potter, 2012.

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• He couldn't say it. He couldn't tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy him with her rejection. If she had feigned her feelings for him - if he'd bought into her lies and her quest for freedom... He wasn't sure what he would do. He could hurt her.

  CJ Roberts

  Hurt, Lying, Mean

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• Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

  Monica Raymund

  Self, Doubt, Actors

  "Making ‘A Better Holiday’" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Self, Hatred, Missing

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• Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

  Molly Crabapple

  Hurt, Moving, Moments

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• Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Four, Novel, Wanted

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• The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, People, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

  Angela Cartwright

  Self Esteem, Kids, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

  Pat McBride

  Heaven, Helping, Problem

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• 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.

  Linus Pauling

  Effort, World, Morality

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• So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Self, Mad

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.103, GENERAL PRESS

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• Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

  Tao Lin

  Pyramid Schemes, Self, Ideas

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God’s law engraved in our hearts.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Cardinal Bergoglio Hits Out at Same-Sex Marriage". www.ncregister.com. July 8, 2010.

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• I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

  Melissa Bank

  Teacher, Boys, Promise

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.88, Penguin

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• I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

  Nora Roberts

  Years, Stories, Letters

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• God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God’s love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

  Myles Munroe

  Love Is, Self, Knowing

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.153, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.
  
  Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.
  
  All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

  Pat McBride

  Love, Yesterday, Keys

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• Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Substance, Way

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.

  Jane Anderson

  Play, Choices, Crafts

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Successful, Doors, Differences

  "Former Cover Model Ashley Zarlin Gets Cheeky With Us". Interview with Clara Lemon, localemagazine.com. July 4, 2015.

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• ... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Religious, Believe, Taken

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.266, Regnery Publishing

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• If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Condemnation, Ifs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Evangelistic Sermons”

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