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Quotes About Rejection

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
~ Paul Lynde
He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.
~ Steve Spurrier
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.
~ Bernie Glassman
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
~ James Altucher
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection
~ Nir Eyal
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.
~ Unknown
Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.
~ Derek A. Cuthbert
Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.
~ Harold Ramis
...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
~ Warren Farrell
I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Anything that can take one's attention for even 5-seconds is capable of adding a new meaning to one's life, be it right or wrong. But how we accept or reject it is what really matters.
~ Terry Mark
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
~ Unknown
Often you think when you're rejected that you are not good enough, But the truth is they weren't ready for all you have to offer.
~ Unknown
Always have confidence and grow with each experienced whether good or bad, don't be held back by fear of rejection or failure, strive for your goals, believing in yourself is the key to your success in life.
~ Unknown
Either you're going to be hated or just misunderstood.
~ Unknown
No matter how great you are, not everybody is going to like you. Thats life.
~ Unknown
Ive learned that no matter how much I care, some people just dont care back.
~ Unknown
Rejection is God's way of saying 'Wrong direction.'
~ Unknown
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
~ Latin proverb
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove
~ Ashleigh Brilliant