Rejection Quotes

• The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Meaningful Life, Life Is

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

  Matthew Hussey

  Pain, Regret, Remember

  FaceBook post by Matthew Hussey from Aug 24, 2014

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• Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

  Tavis Smiley

  Sometimes, Life Is, Redirection

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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, Ears

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• Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

  Mary Cassatt

  Acceptance, Term

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• You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

  Ray Bradbury

  Addresses, Failing, Indication

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• Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

  John Powell

  Acceptance, Atmosphere, Soil

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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  If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

  LeCrae

  Acceptance, People, Dies

  "Celeb Chop-Up: Lecrae". Interview with Jason Jordan, usatodayhss.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Self Esteem, People, Self Respect

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Hostage

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• I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

  Sylvia Plath

  Encouraging, Trying, Show Me

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Doors, Somewhere Else, Arrows

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• Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  Christian Bauman

  Change, Writing, Persistence

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• You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

  Tony Robbins

  Use, Littles, Next

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• My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.

  Sherry Lansing

  Giving Up, Moving, Intelligent

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Doors, Faces, Your Face

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Hell, Slips

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Vegas, Tunnels

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• The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life Is, Easier, Communicate

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2015

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• Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Loneliness, Stress

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.179, Zondervan

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Fake, Promise, Rejected

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 12, 2014

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• It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  People, Appreciate, Overcoming

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• 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.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Girl, Firsts, Facts

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