Rejection Quotes - Page 11

• If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Condemnation, Ifs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Evangelistic Sermons”

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• 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.

  Marcia Angell

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "Message from Massachusetts" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

  Monica Raymund

  Self, Doubt, Actors

  "Making ‘A Better Holiday’" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

  Mila Kunis

  Competition, Pressure, Downfall

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• It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

  Patrick Stewart

  Christmas, Generosity, Giving

  "Televised chestnuts: Christmas present". www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

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• But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Stories, Rejected

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• I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

  Rod Stewart

  Bye, Hello, Said

  Song: You're in My Heart

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• So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Baby, Mind, Trying

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• Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

  Elton John

  Hook, Tonight, Sugar

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

  Rob Portman

  Strong, Hurt, Favors

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• Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Iraq, Would Be, Arms

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• The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

  Celinda Lake

  Organization, Women Leadership, Profit

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• The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

  Romano Prodi

  Rejected, Crushed, Policy

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• The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

  David Hawkins

  Addresses, Global Warming, Program

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• They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

  Eric Clapton

  Hero, Gun, Gutters

  Song: Watch Out For Lucy, Album: Backless, 1978

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• They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

  Neil Sedaka

  Knows, Hard

  Song: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

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• This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

  Conway Twitty

  Hurt

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• Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

  Willie Nelson

  Baby, Morning, Warning

  Willie Nelson, David Ritz (2015). “Mein Leben: Eine lange Geschichte”, p.134, Heyne Verlag

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• What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.

  Waylon Jennings

  Bother

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• What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

  Dionne Warwick

  Kissing, Pneumonia, Phones

  "A Divorcee Wonders Where to Fling Her Ring". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 20, 2007.

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• I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.

  Rob Schneider

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Angela Cartwright

  Self Esteem, Kids, Trying

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

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• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  Barry Mann

  Able, Accepting

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• I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an enemy would. Friends are supportive. Enemies put us down and undermine our confidence. So if you say something that an enemy would say, stop. Answer back, 'I'm going to be supportive of myself. As a friend, what I have to say to myself is . . .' Then say something supportive.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Being Yourself, Enemy, Supportive

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.87, Harmony

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