Quotes About Determination

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

I had my share of rejections.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.

I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.

I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.

As an entrepreneur, you're going to get 100 rejections and one yes. That one yes will give you enough and more kick in life to continue and remain motivated.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.

I think everything's a part and parcel of being in this profession, rejection being a huge, huge part of it, and I can't tell you how grateful I am for all those rejections because one thing that I understand is that you have to be really, really strong headed, you have to be very level headed, If you want to be in this industry.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters.

Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.