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Quotes About Rejection

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
~ Carl Jung
All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
~ Bertrand Russell
I eat "NOs" for breakfast.
~ Jeff Henderson
Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
~ Kirsten Olson
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.
~ Richard Pascale
Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.
~ Howard Thurman
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
~ James Dean
Don't stop giving sincere compliments when the student seems to be rejecting you—you are being tested to see if you can hold up to a bit of rejection. Some students will reject you before you can reject them. Don't let their attitude change your attitude of appreciation. They have to know that you believe that they can be successful in the culture.
~ Jeffrey Benson
Moreover, as we have already seen, the truth claims of the Bible are not rejected because the gospel is rationally incoherent or unsupported by historical evidence. Rather, the truth is rejected because the unchanged heart remains in love with the false notion of its own moral self-righteousness and/or intellectual autonomy.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
If the Bible provides us with the only cohesive system of thought that allows us to properly interpret all of reality, why is it so hated and rejected by so many? If the truth claims of the Bible are logically demonstrable, why is it so despised and ridiculed by some of the brightest and smartest minds?
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Criticizing and rejecting ideas and knowledge deemed to be true—inverting conventional wisdom—is more valuable at Honda than repeated success using the same concepts.
~ Jeffrey Rothfeder
Not everyone you meet is going to like you, and that's okay.
~ Jen Calonita
I told him of the queen's refusal to see me, and"- he hesitated, his cheeks coloring slightly- "about the beautiful maiden I met in the castle gardens." "You did?" she asked, unsure why she was so taken with the fact that he'd mentioned her. "Yes," Henri smiled shyly. "Oh, brother," she heard Grumpy mumble.
~ Jen Calonita
As Scott Stratten, author of UnMarketing says: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.
~ Jen Hatmaker
For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.
~ Jen Lancaster
Every no takes you one step closer to a yes!
~ Jen Ramsey
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Sera, I presume?" he said and her bones melted at the sound of his deep voice pronouncing her name. She nodded and held out her hand. He raised a dark eyebrow in her direction and didn't take it. She lowered it again, feeling like a fool for thinking he would touch her, a turned human, and for the first time since she could remember, her gaze didn't want anything to do with him.
~ Jennifer Ashley
She told me not to even try. Said you were... as frigid as a nun and as cold as ice." That one actually stung.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me.
~ Jennifer Donnelly