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.
