Rejected Quotes

• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• 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.

  Michael York

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  Omar N. Bradley

  History, Atoms, Nuclear

  Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

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• There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

  James Lee Burke

  Rejects You, Rejection, Inventory

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• I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Motivational, Military, Rejection

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

  Ashley Tisdale

  Rejection, Want, What You Want

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• The European Union's finished. It doesn't work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit.

  Nigel Farage

  Country, Honor, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Editors, Appreciate

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• It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

  Barry Switzer

  Heart, College, Nfl

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• I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

  Janna Levin

  Mother, Clever, Believe

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• If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

  Mark Epstein

  Healing, Cutting, Hatred

  Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.23, Basic Books

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• I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

  Rod Serling

  Independent, Live Well, Wells

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Truth

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• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Philosophy

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, Editors, Two

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.146, University of Illinois Press

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• When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Understanding, Able

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• It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

  Robert Genn

  Rejection, Accepting

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.108, Studio Beckett Publications

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• To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

  Preity Zinta

  Pain, Mean, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.

  Beth Moore

  Acceptance, Christ, Accepted

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• It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness, the greed, the hate, and rejected it and tried to create something new. Their creation neither succeeded nor failed. It was another experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Greed, Soul

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• Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Fate, Birth, Abandoned

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• Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Mysterious Benedict Society, Felt

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• When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Grateful, People

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• The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Struggle, Long

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