Rejection Quotes

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

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.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.