Rejection Quotes

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

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

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

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.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

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.

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 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.

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

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.