Quotes About Acceptance

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

You take the risk of being rejected.

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

In my time, I've gotten the chance to play a few different people who are younger and have been rejected by their parents, and I think a lot of times that results in them really seeking help, even subconsciously doing so.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

For a while, I couldn't join Facebook because of my last name. During the registration process, I was asked for my real name, and when I wrote 'Fake,' it rejected me. Finally, a friend working for Facebook took care of me.

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

I did a fantastic emotional film, 'Autograph.' But the audiences rejected me in it. They like to see me laughing and fighting.

Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

If someone decides to go ahead with a project that I had rejected earlier, and it works out well for him or her, there is no point in feeling bad.

You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.

Like, I feel like I'm funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me.