Quotes About Rejection

Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Such meticulousness was touching, as though Maggie poured into the house all the tenderness that was rebuffed by those she lived with.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

Show business got really tainted for me.

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

Modeling is a lonely business.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

This was because I could see it for what it was, instead of getting immersed in it and sowing more seeds of feeling rejected.

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what do you accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what do you accept - what opens up your world – and what to reject – but seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

Sink, he told his hopes, with a kind of satisfaction, sink like a corpse dropped into the river. I am rejected, not for being unwelcome, not even for being ridiculous, but for being nothing.

How many men have asked you to marry them?' 'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation.

Early reading is serendipitous, and rightly so. Gloriously so. Libraries favor serendipity, invite it; the roaming along a shelf, eyeing an unfamiliar name, taking this down, then that--oh, who's this? Never heard of her--give her a go? That is where, and how, you learn affinity and rejection. You find out what you like by exploring what you do not.

The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.

Parliamentary prisoners were often sent to Coventry under armed guard; hence the familiar expression.