Rejecting Quotes

• 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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• 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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• A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Fake, Rejection, Promise

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 12, 2014

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• All great innovations are built on rejections.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Rejection, Innovation, Rejected

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• I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Thinking, Rejection, Innovation

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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 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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• Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Heaven, Rejection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

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• I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

  Saul Bellow

  Love, Writing, Heart

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• Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

  James Lee Burke

  Rejects You, Rejection, Way

  Interview with April Henry, www.aprilhenry.com. 1999.

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• A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ignorance, Science, Rocks

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17

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• Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Feminist, Levels

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.328, Macmillan

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• Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hegel, Truth Is, Reason

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• Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

  Gary L. Francione

  Racism, Links, Discrimination

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• ‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

  Henning Mankell

  Silence, Together, Able

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 16, 2012

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• One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Dog, Men, Hair

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.107, MIRA

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• The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Humble, Men

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• Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.

  Louise Rennison

  Hero, Mean, Laughing

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• The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.

  Arthur E. Powell

  Spiritual, Self, Essence

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• Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Greatness, Compassion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

  Harold Evans

  Mean, Stereotype, Cliche

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• The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Reality, People, Farming

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don`t be a doer - then you achieve both. Move in the world, but don`t be a part of it. Live in the world, but don`t let the world live in you. Then the contradiction has been absorbed. Then you are not rejecting anything, not denying anything. Then the whole God has been accepted.

  Rajneesh

  Karma, Moving, Mean

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• It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Reading, Thinking

  "Remembering Louise Wilson OBE". AnOther Interview, origin.anothermag.com. May 17, 2014.

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