Quotes About Rejection

So you were good enough for the Cullach Gorrym, good enough to marry Dorelei mab Breidaia, good enough to beget Alba a successor, but not good enough for the Queen's daughter?" Urist's lips curled with scorn. The tip of his knife flicked upward. "Well, that's what I think of that, lad." The red yarn parted and fell.

I started to think she was such an idiot that I didn't really want to be friends with her after all.

I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

Harry Bernstein was a total failure when he wrote his bestselling memoir, The Invisible Wall. His prior forty (forty!) novels had been rejected by publishers. When his memoir came out, he was ninety-three years old. A quote from him: "If I had not lived until I was 90, I would not have been able to write this book, God knows what other potentials lurk in other people, if we could only keep them alive well into their 90s.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic. How

IMPROVE. You wanted that ONE job, that ONE scholarship, that TV show, that book, to sell your company, to sell your product, whatever. And they said, no. Take a hard look at the product. Can you improve your offering? Can you take a step back and improve what you are doing? Maybe you can and maybe you can't. But brainstorm first. What are the ten things you can do to improve what you are doing?

The NORMAL thing is to be rejected. To get rejected by jobs, your kids, friends, family members, relationships, businesses, publishers, everyone.

In life, you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn't care less.

you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn't care less." When I heard that, my entire

Rejection—and the fear of rejection—is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you.

But the most important thing these rejections gave me was a sense that NEVER AGAIN should I rely on the whims of one person to choose my success or failure in any endeavor.

In life, you will always have a third of people who love you, a third who hate you and a third who couldn't care less. - From an interview with Gabrielle Reese

First off, people say "it doesn't hurt to ask" precisely when it does hurt to ask.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.

I am nothing to you, nothing, and you bring me fever but no delight.

On the morning of the evening that we met I had been turned out of my room. I did not owe an awful lot of money, only around six thousand francs, but Parisian hotel-keepers have a way of smelling poverty and then they do what anybody does who is aware of a bad smell; they throw whatever stinks outside.

Me, I want to escape,' he had told me, 'Je veux m'evader--this dirty world, this dirty body. I never wish to make love again with anything more than the body.

It takes discipline to say "No, thank you" to big opportunities.

High modernism implies, as we have seen, a rejection of the past as a model to improve upon and a desire to make a completely fresh start. The more utopian the high modernism, the more thoroughgoing its implied critique of the existing society.

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.

My uncles used to call me 'Devil Child,' or 'Triple' for triple six. They used to tell my brother Chris that they were going to get the demons out of him because he was also a little crazy. But to me, they'd just be like, 'You're too far gone. There's no exorcising you anymore.'