Quotes About Rejection

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

You can't be afraid of rejection. That was one of my problems when I was approaching girls: I was always afraid of what they were going to say to me.

In order to handle rejection, we have to reflect on the past, analyze/study it. Next, just like a computer, we have to reboot. Next, get it out of our system by rejecting every aspect of it.

The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual... that's nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you've been taught that you are not a human like other people.

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 used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it.

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.

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

Don't take rejection personally.

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.

Rejection is never personal, so don't let it consume you.

It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor's life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

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

I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.

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

My fear of coming out wasn't about rejection. I was scared people would say: 'Why were you lying to me? If you've been lying about that what else are you lying about?' Lying is my biggest regret.

Very early in my life, I realised that it is okay getting rejected. Sometimes, we take rejection too personally.

I had this fear of rejection. I had this inner unworthiness.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

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.

Just coming to L.A. to be a comic and an actor, it's not the kindest world to come to. There's a lot of rejection, which I'm not used to. I hate rejection, but it's about 90 percent of the business.

There are some people who, when they fall in love or feel envious, may easily feel rejected. Any real or perceived rejection could bring them to the edge of absurdity. Sometimes they even become liars.