Rejection Quotes! 80+ Quotes and Sayings about Being Rejected
Rejection Quotes On Success
“See rejection as redirection.” —Anonymous
“Learn to accept rejections.” —Stefy Anto
“Rejection is God’s protection.” —Alice Hunt
“Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.” —Madonna
“The most powerful motivation is rejection.” —Anonymous
“Successful people reject rejection.” —John C. Maxwell
“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” —Bernard Branson
“Never fear rejection for a life of regretting.” —Anonymous
“Be mature enough to accept rejection and failure.” —Varshitha Karanam
“Rejection tests whether you’re serious about your dreams.” —Tiyasha Ghosh
“Rejection is the reason why people deny their true feelings.” —Anonymous
“The fear of rejection is worse than rejection itself.” —Nora Profit
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” —Sylvia Plath
“Rejection is not the end. Just a step on the path.” —Anonymous
“If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” —Lecrae
“We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection, and dream of perfection.” —Mac Miller
“Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.” —Jim Valvano
“The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.” —Henri Nouwen
“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.” —Bo Bennett
“Rejection is a part of life. Just learn to deal with it and keep moving.” —Samyak Mendhe
“The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling fear of rejection, the easier life is.” —Robert Kiyosaki
“Don’t take rejection overly personally. If that doesn’t “work out, there’s something else waiting for you.” —Sierra McCornick
“Some people are going to reject you simply because you shine too bright for them. That’s okay, keep shining.” —Anonymous
“Rejection is not meant to reduce you, it’s meant to reroute you to God’s purpose for your life.” —Danny Chambers
“Everyone at some point in life has faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self-realization.” —Laila Gifty Akita
“Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.” —Harvey Mackay
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone
“Rejection isn’t failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It’s how you handle it that determines where you’ll end up.” —Richard Castle
“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
“Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibility of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happiness.” —Morten Hogsberg
“Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.” —Kevin Feige
“As I look back on my life, I realized that everytime I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” —Steve Maraboli
“Make the first move, tell people how you feel, stop being so scared of rejection, stop feeling so engulfed with thoughts that aren’t even yours, and stop wasting your time.” —Anonymous
“Learn how to face rejection. Don’t forget to always be positive in all dealings. Starting out is always the hard part, and once this obstacle is overcome everything else will be a breeze at doing.” —Anonymous
“The biggest hurdle is rejection, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.” —John Paul DeJoria
Rejection Quotes and Sayings
“Rejection is a challenge.” —Veronica Purcell
“Don’t get discouraged from all the rejection.” —Joey King
“Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance.” —Ramesh Lohia
“Human rejection can be God’s divine protection.” —Paula Hendricks
“There’s no point in dwelling on rejection.” —Isabel Lucas
“Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.” —Panish Proverb
“Rejection gives you more power to push forward.” —Jeremy Limn
“I think all great innovations are built on rejections.” —Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Learn to eat rejection? It will make you stronger.” —Bob Ragland
“Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.” —Brian Klemmer
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” —Marcus Aurelius
“A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.” —Rihanna A Mohammed
“If we live for people’s acceptance, we will die from their rejection.” —Lecrae
“Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.” —Bryant McGill
“To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.” —John Donne
“Don’t let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.” —Ashley Tisdale
“Social rejection doesn’t just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.” —Leonard Mlodinow
“You get used to the rejection and you don’t take it personally.” —Daniel Craig
“I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.” —Laura Kightlinger
“Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.” —Sasha Grey
“The effects of rejection can either kill your muse or change your life.” —Jane Champagne
“There’s nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.” —James Lee Burke
“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.” —Bo Bennett
“A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.” —Alexander Chase
“Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.” —Charles Baudelaire
“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” —Eartha Kitt
“Rejection is the sand in the oyster, the irritation that ultimately produces the pearl.” —Burke Wilkinson
“You’ve got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.” —Jessica Biel
“It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.” —Robert Genn
“Rejection isn’t a sign that something is wrong for you it’s a sign that they’re wrong for you.” —Sonya Parker
“We are always afraid to ask because we aren’t afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.” —Anna R.
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good I was actually being redirected to something better.” —Steve Maraboli
“Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.” —James Lee Burke
“Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.” —Harvey Mackay
“Rejection isn’t failure. Failure is giving up. Everyone gets rejected. It’s how handle it that determines where you’ll end up.” —Richard Castle
“Don’t feel bad if someone rejects you or ignore you. People usually reject and ignore expensive things because they can’t afford them.” —Unknown
“How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” —Dita Von Teese
“Rejection doesn’t have to mean you aren’t good enough; it often just means the other person failed to notice what you have to offer.” —Ash Sweeney
“Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.” —Robin Black
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” —Walt Disney
“A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.” —Lance Armstrong
“Artistic rejection is like taking cod liver oil; they say it’s good for you, you know they’re right, but it can be still tough to swallow.” —Ian Semple
“Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model’s career, as ironic as that sounds. It’s how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.” —Erin O’Connor
“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
“Rejection can disappoint you, depress you and may even stop you in your tracks… learn not to take rejection so personally… if you’re honest with yourself and believe in your work, others will too.” —Bev Jozwiak
“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 —Ralph Waldo Emerson