#Rejection Quotes

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”

“Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.”

“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.”

“Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me”

“O that a lady, of one man refused,Should of another therefore be abused!”

“Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.”

“A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.”

“Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.”

“Success is buried on the other side of rejection.”

“When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.”

“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”

“A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.”

“The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.”

“Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.”

“There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.”

“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'.”

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

“I had been rejected, but I was still in love.”

“I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.”

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

“I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.”

“A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.”

“Everybody knew about the bulimia in the family. And they all blamed the failure of the marriage on the bulimia and it's taken them time to think differently. I said I was rejected, I didn't think I was good enough for this family, so I took it out on myself. I could have gone to alcohol. I could have been anorexic. I chose to hurt myself instead of hurting all of you.”

“Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it”

“Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.”

“The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.”

“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”

“Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.”

“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.”

“One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.”

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”

“To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.”

“One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."”

“Successful people reject rejection.”

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"”

“I would not be a rose upon the wallA queen might stop at, near the palace-door,To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,Than lie in a great queen's bosom.”

“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."”

“Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'No' by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.”

“All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.”

“To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.”

“I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.”

“The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.”

“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.”