Rejection Quotes: Embracing Resilience and Growth
Rejection is an inevitable part of life. It can be painful, discouraging, and disheartening. However, rejection also offers an opportunity for growth, self-reflection, and resilience. These quotes capture the essence of rejection and its transformative power. They inspire us to embrace rejection as a stepping stone towards personal development and success, reminding us that even in the face of rejection, we have the strength to rise above and thrive.
Building Resilience
Rejection tests our resilience, challenging us to bounce back from setbacks and persevere. These quotes emphasize the importance of resilience in the face of rejection, encouraging us to view rejection as a catalyst for growth rather than a roadblock. They remind us that our ability to recover from rejection and keep moving forward is what ultimately defines our character and success. These quotes inspire us to build resilience and embrace rejection as an opportunity for personal and professional development.
Finding Opportunities
Rejection often opens doors to unexpected opportunities. These quotes highlight the notion that when one door closes, another opens. They encourage us to see rejection as a redirection towards paths that are better suited for us, pushing us closer to our true calling. They remind us that sometimes rejection is a necessary step on the journey to finding our purpose and fulfillment. These quotes inspire us to embrace the unknown and trust that rejection can lead us to greater opportunities.
Overcoming Fear
Rejection can be accompanied by fear and self-doubt. These quotes address the fear of rejection and urge us to overcome it. They remind us that true growth and achievement often lie outside our comfort zones, requiring us to face rejection head-on. They inspire us to push past our fears, take risks, and pursue our dreams despite the possibility of rejection. These quotes encourage us to embrace the discomfort and uncertainty that rejection brings, knowing that it is through these experiences that we truly learn and evolve.
Empowering Self-Reflection
Rejection provides an opportunity for self-reflection and introspection. These quotes emphasize the importance of looking inward and learning from our rejections. They encourage us to assess our strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, allowing us to grow and evolve. They remind us that rejection can be a powerful teacher, guiding us towards self-discovery and personal growth. These quotes inspire us to embrace rejection as a chance to learn more about ourselves and become better versions of who we are.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I experienced rejection numerous times.
This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told ‘No’ an awful lot of the time. You have to keep getting up and carrying on to get to where you want to go.
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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.
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: ‘After a heavy rainfall, poems titled ‘Rain’ pour in from across the nation.’
Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That’s what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what’s uncomfortable.
Don’t get discouraged from all the 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.
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
I faced innumerable rejections and resorted to surgery to improve my looks and appearance.
I’m sure a lot of people go into this industry quite blind as to what it will be like. There’s a lot of rejection, but I knew that. My parents have been super-supportive, they told me from the start, ‘Just keep going.’
I didn’t want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a 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.
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
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’ve always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I’ve got it right.
Ghosting’s a horrible thing, isn’t it? It doesn’t feel good, it feels like a rejection. And what’s more, it feels like a rejection where there’s no closure.
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one’s own well-being.
Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take ‘no’ one more time. I could not take the rejection.
We shouldn’t romanticize rejection. There’s nothing romantic about rejection. It’s horrible.
Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with ‘Prozac Nation’ so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn’t been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn’t have happened.
What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.
The first rejection that ‘Dexter’ got, I was like, ‘OK. This hasn’t worked. Let’s try something else. I’ll go get a teaching job or something.’
Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
But so much of being an actor isn’t so great – the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody’s going down.
I do some three-part harmonies on ‘Throes of Rejection’ and ‘Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,’ but I didn’t go overboard with it.
If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
I’ve had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It’s a frustrating game, that’s the downside of this business – the rejection.
The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.
One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
The most common experience in my life is rejection. I’ve done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
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 sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own?
I’m big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there’s sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
But on the extremist side I didn’t get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
Rejection and I are old friends.
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
For my first role, I had to audition five times. I’ve gotten a lot of no’s and rejections. But I just had to keep working hard. I took classes; I worked on my craft and continued to work with an acting coach and just didn’t give up on myself.
You can make your own way. It’s about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
What is rejection? Rejection is something that you try and you don’t get.
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
I still get rejections – frequently – and my goal isn’t to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don’t. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they’d much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
When I was younger, I could be pretty bitter. I still have moments, but I think I’ve gotten pretty good at rejection.
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It’s hard. If a joke doesn’t get a laugh, that’s instant rejection. And that’s mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.
When I was 19, 20 I faced rejections. When I turned 20 I signed my south film and by the time I was 23, I had done three south films. I would go to different production houses everyday for auditions and they would reject me saying you cant talk, smile, dance or act.
So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it’s also been very hard to handle rejection.
There isn’t an actor alive who hasn’t been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, ‘She looks too healthy,’ which of course translates as, ‘She needs to lose weight.’
I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I’ve collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
I had my share of rejections.
There’s no point in dwelling on rejection.
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the ‘Saturday Evening Post.’
It’s 90 percent rejection, being an actor.
The major reason for Keynes’s rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn’t survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn’t realize how good they were.
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours – so enjoy the view.
Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn’t instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don’t feel like I’m a prodigy or something.
I had this fear of rejection. I had this inner unworthiness.
You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don’t get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.
Rejection is part of the process, so you can’t let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, ‘Sheltering Rain,’ was translated into 11 languages.
I need work. I still audition for work. I don’t get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.
I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I’d put it off until then because I didn’t feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
The thing about stand-ups is you can’t really get good unless you’re failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can’t do anything.
I’ve had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.
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.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
It’s the rejection that is hard. It’s not the interviewing that’s hard. It’s not the photography that’s hard. It’s, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
I don’t know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don’t have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald’s, and the rest is history.
There’s nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful – they use nice paper.
I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
I’ve struggled so much in my life and I’ve seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into a film.
You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Rejection is never personal, so don’t let it consume you.
There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
My fear of coming out wasn’t about rejection. I was scared people would say: ‘Why were you lying to me? If you’ve been lying about that what else are you lying about?’ Lying is my biggest regret.
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don’t care how much of a genius you are, if you don’t have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you’re not going to survive.
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.
The problem with being an actress is there’s a lot of rejection.
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.
I’ve always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I’ve got it right.
What’s going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection – like in the U.K.
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
It’s really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like ‘Hey, how do you feel about making music together?’ because maybe I’m afraid of rejection or I don’t want to put anybody out. It’s the Southerner in me, like, ‘I don’t mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?’
The first text I ever got was somebody breaking plans on a first date. That was, like, the worst way to be introduced to a new technology is with rejection.
I’ve got a very tough skin because I’ve been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.
I don’t really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
For me, it was always that one extra job that you do to survive in the industry. I also realised that I was not well-sculpted as an actor because I was getting a lot of rejections. I stopped acting and focused on casting.
I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, ‘The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,’ was accepted for publication.
The sinner who suddenly realizes God’s love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.
As an entrepreneur, you’re going to get 100 rejections and one yes. That one yes will give you enough and more kick in life to continue and remain motivated.
Acting is a life of rejection.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.
My story is one of ups and downs. It’s made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.
Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model’s career, as ironic as that sounds. It’s how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.
I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade… everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.
I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
My parents didn’t want me to be an actor. They didn’t think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
You didn’t have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters’ humor, because at its heart, ‘Party Down’ was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we’ve all had to work just to get by in the meantime.
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.
Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
I believe that rejection is a blessing because it’s the universe’s way of telling you that there’s something better out there.
Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you’re young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.
The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual… that’s nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you’ve been taught that you are not a human like other people.
You can’t be afraid of rejection. That was one of my problems when I was approaching girls: I was always afraid of what they were going to say to me.
We did not start a fight with America, and we don’t want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
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.
If I were to try to break into the world of modern dance, after the first few rejections the logical response might be, practice even more. But after the 12,000th rejection, maybe I should realize this isn’t a viable career option.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
In the music business, there’s a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you’ll be better off when the adjustment comes.
Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this – that it’s a job?
There are no guarantees in the music field. There’s a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn’t happening for me.
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
Being a 25 year old man with no money or job affected my sense of self-worth. Rejection became unbearable. Auditions weren’t just acting jobs, they were lifelines.
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
I’m glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It’s a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
I couldn’t tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who’s brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
You’ve got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.
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.
It’s important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.
It’s fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you’re young; your resilience is just terrific.
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.
I’m talking to anyone who has been dumped – have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.
I didn’t have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.
As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it’s not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there’s been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it’s a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Equal rights for women. I agree with that concept. But we will never be free, we will never obtain equality, until we stop letting ourselves become pawns of the abortion industry. Our freedom depends on our rejection of abortion.
Being an actress and a singer, you get more ‘nos’ than you get ‘yes.’ You get more rejection than you do anything else.
Rejection doesn’t always mean I’m not good enough.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.
I think with any sort of rejection, you’re angry that you weren’t enough for that person.
I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.
It’s still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn’t have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
If you’re facing rejection right now, it’s very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it’s not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it’s better than thinking that someone was out to get you.
It’s easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.
The usual way – through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
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.
In my work, there’s a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‘Lives of Girls and Women,’ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.
I definitely have had a couple of years where I’ve been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you’ll never work again. It’s a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.
When I got the role in ‘Homeland,’ it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn’t personal. All that rejection wasn’t personal.
Such a big part of this business is rejection. Each time that you get rejected, a big part of it is just staying positive – even if you don’t get the role, it’s still giving you practice. I love being able to take direction and talk with the casting directors in the room.
You’ve not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.
Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence – or even the rejection – of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.
Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.
Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there’s a lot of rejection in our business.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
Lately, I’ve been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I’ll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers’ market and ask for something where I know they’ll say no. No one likes rejection, but it’s real. And I don’t want to lose that feeling.
I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
It is unfortunate that in every industry, there are people who take advantage of needy people, but I would like to tell all the budding actors not to be vulnerable and always have a backup plan because rejection in auditions and films is not the end of the world.
A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
Take rejection as an eye-opener. Take it as something that pushes you and makes you do things better.
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
I think I got serious about writing in the late ’90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters.
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.
Social rejection doesn’t just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
May these rejection quotes serve as a reminder that rejection is not the end but rather a stepping stone towards growth and resilience. Let them inspire you to embrace rejection as an opportunity for self-reflection, learning, and finding new paths. May they empower you to build resilience, overcome fear, and embrace the unknown with courage and determination. Remember, rejection does not define your worth or potential; it simply redirects you towards the opportunities and experiences meant for you.
