Quotes About Ambition

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I got rejected from journalism school!

I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine.

I was rejected from 'American Idol' - and I'm happier for it now.

When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

I always wanted to do an emotional role but was rejected a couple of times because the directors felt that I have always done negative roles and so I wouldn't fit the bill. That was dejecting.

People sometimes just need inspiration to keep moving along, whether it's going to Notre Dame and being rejected, or taking a long time to bring a sports movie and Hollywood together, which took a long time for 'Rudy.'

I was rejected for many-many films.

They rejected me as a player. Newcastle said I wasn't going to be big or strong enough to make the grade, Burnley said the same. Most people said the same to be fair.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

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

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

Take rejection as an eye-opener. Take it as something that pushes you and makes you do things better.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

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.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

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.

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