Rejection Quotes - Page 9

• Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.
  
  Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.
  
  All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

  Pat McBride

  Love, Yesterday, Keys

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• God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God’s love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

  Myles Munroe

  Love Is, Self, Knowing

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.153, Destiny Image Publishers

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• For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

  Nora Roberts

  Years, Stories, Letters

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• Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

  Michael Shermer

  Past, Religion, Atheism

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.145, Holt Paperbacks

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• The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mirrors, Hatred, Faces

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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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• Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.

  Roy Clarke

  Thank God, Gone, Greyhounds

  Song: Thank God and Greyhound

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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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• A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.

  Jane Anderson

  Play, Choices, Crafts

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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 ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

  Dan Hill

  Hurt, Lying, Love You

  Song: Sometimes When We Touch

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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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• 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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• Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.

  David Gates

  Goodbye, Next Day, Notes

  Song: Took The Last Train, Album: Goodbye Girl, 1978

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• I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Divorce, Feels, Ultimate

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• You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Flower, Over You

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

  Shirley Henderson

  Brave, Criticism, Fool

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

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• We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

  Henry Rollins

  Life Lesson, Acceptance, Lessons

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• The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ignorance, Refuse, Knows

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• Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

  Jack Canfield

  Next, Rejects, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Sep 07, 2012

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• Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Eye, Dancing, Empty

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• You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Arrows, Poison

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