Quotes About Rejection

Don't threaten me with your death, Mother. God doesn't want you, and the Devil won't have you. Doesn't want the competition.

It's every woman's nightmare. Waking up in a sexy man's bed only to find he doesn't want you? Definitely a nightmare.

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.

And if God approves of people like Alicia, he doesn't want me; and the devil does. It's nice to be wanted, Mrs. Franklin. I haven't been wanted for a long time now.

the chief reason that [A Wrinkle in Time] was rejected for over two years and by thirty-odd publishers was because it is a difficult book for many adults, the decision was made to market it as a children's book; it won a medal for children's books.

is not an easy thing to refuse to be worshipped.

She sat icy and withdrawn. She had hoped he would touch her, put his arms around her. Now she felt she would kill him if he tried.

Slightly at a loss, Louis turned to talk to someone else. Young women didn't normally walk away from him like that. Stevie had been watching; he saw the way Louis had laid his hand on Kit's arm with his easy familiar charm. It had made Stevie rage inside.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward.

But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7

The psychologist Barry Schwartz recently proposed that elite schools give up their complex admissions process and simply hold a lottery for everyone above the threshold. "Put people into two categories," Schwartz says. "Good enough and not good enough. The ones who are good enough get put into a hat. And those who are not good enough get rejected.

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

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.

REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it's give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

If you are strong enough to face Fear of Failure, Fear of Rejections, and Fear of Criticism, that's the sign of Success.

If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Nessuno vuole restare senza stormo, o essere separato dal gregge. Ti allontani una volta o due dallo sciame - e vedi che non ti lasciano più tornare. Perchè ormai, ti sei ammalato di nitrillo.

And so for me the expression "ordinary child" became a term of utter contempt. It was better to grow up to be a stray dog, better to be a cripple or a mental retard, better to be a girl even, provided I didn't become an "ordinary child" like the rest of them, provided I could go on being "so very special!" or "really out of the ordinary!

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: 'Excuse me, it was all a dream,' and by that time I may have found one who will say: 'Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.

I love beauty but I find it easier to reject it now because I love other things more than beauty: genius, passion, nature–all of which are often manifested without beauty of form. I love ugliness because it expresses strength.