Rejection Quotes - Page 35

• My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
  How comes it then that this her cold so great
  Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
  But harder grows the more I her entreat?

  Edmund Spenser

  Love Is, Ice, Fire

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.

  Sallust

  Kings, Believe, Punishment

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• My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Loss, Choices, Cost

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jesus, Men, Age

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• I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

  Sue Augustine

  Heartbroken, Letting Go, Hurt

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.103, Harvest House Publishers

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• Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

  Dottie Walters

  Motivational, Perseverance, Mets

  Dottie Walters (2002). “Speak and Grow Rich: Revised and Updated”, p.75, Penguin

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

  Alan Watts

  Ego, Identity, Sitting

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

  Don Rickles

  Mother, School, Soul

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• I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. So I don't know if I'm angry at myself for not being enough, or if I'm angry at him for not considering me to be enough.

  Jennie Garth

  Divorce, Thinking, Enough

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Changing, Liars, Lying

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• But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

  Jon Ronson

  Sides, Talk To Me, Extremist

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• It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

  Lisa Alther

  Years, Firsts, Novel

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• Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

  Bob Proctor

  Moving, Persistence, Winning

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 17, 2017

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• Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

  Gilbert Morris

  Writing, Wells, Handle

  Gilbert Morris (1994). “How to write (and sell) a Christian novel: proven and practical advice from a best-selling author”

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• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Agreement, Organization

  Abbas UN speech: Annotated extracts, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2011.

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• All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, Moving, Destiny

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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  Ian Ziering

  Let It Go, Hollywood, Goes On

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