Quotes About Rejection

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

It's rare for someone to give you a helping hand when you're going through rejection.

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.

Rejection is just a part of life.

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

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.

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

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll never work again. It's a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.

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

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of 'Lives of Girls and Women,' I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

I'd read a lot about the psychology around rejection and insecurity, and I had noticed that when people feel insecure or rejected, they behave aggressively, erratically. Especially when you can hide behind a screen name or a profile picture.