Rejection Quotes - Page 5

Never, EVER give up. Not ever. Not EVER. Ever EVER!

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!

Everyone fears rejection.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?