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Quotes About Rejection

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
~ Daniel H. Pink
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success
~ Robert Foster Bennett
Failure has no friends.
~ John F. Kennedy
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
~ Charles R. Schwab
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
~ Will Arnett
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
~ Jonas Salk
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
~ Amy Tan
there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.
~ Gene Tierney
Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.
~ Aya Cash
A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed
~ Frederick Lenz
At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope, Fernand, replied Mercedes; you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, 'I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another's.' Is not this true, Fernand?
~ Alexandre Dumas
I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me;
~ Alexandre Dumas
Alt?n bir çaÄŸ yaÅŸan?yordu; benzersiz maceralar, zengin yaÅŸam ve zor ölüm devriydi bu . . . ama kimse öyle düÅŸünmüyordu. Servet ve h?rs?zl?kla, yaÄŸma ve çapulculukla, kültür ve ahlaks?zl?kla dolu bir gelecekti bu . . . ama kimse bunu kabul etmiyordu. A??r?l?klar?n ça??yd?, hilkat garibelerinin büyüleyici yüzy?l? . . . ama kimse bundan hoÅŸlanm?yordu.
~ Alfred Bester
Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.
~ Alice Hoffman
She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.
~ Alice Hoffman
I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.
~ Alice Hoffman
You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance
~ Alice Hoffman
You had best never return, he said. You have it wrong, Maria told him. You had best stay away from me.
~ Alice Hoffman
He had felt the same sort of aloneness once again when Maria told him to leave;
~ Alice Hoffman
As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.
~ Alice Hoffman
Shelby has absolutely nothing inside of her. She's a black hole. A sinkhole. A whole lot of nothing. She's told Ben that, but he doesn't want to believe her. Who would have imagined he'd turn out to be such an optimist?
~ Alice Hoffman
Keep your eyes open," Isabelle told the siblings. "You may see her in the yard. This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.
~ Alice Hoffman