Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Robert Seeley

It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

Ray Bradbury

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

James Altucher

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

Henry B. Eyring

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

Laura Kightlinger

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

James Lee Burke

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

James Randi

Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.

Jon Ronson

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

Jon Meacham

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Marlo Thomas

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

The rejection of Aegis won't look like it's a 'no' forever,

Romano Prodi

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

Laura Riding

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

Sol Stern

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

Tavis Smiley

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

Tony Robbins

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'.

Tony Blair

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Steven Morrissey

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Ryan Kwanten

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Rose Byrne

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Philippa Gregory

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Vicente Fox

We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.

Thomas Huxley

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

Robert Montgomery

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Rod Stewart

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Samuel Johnson

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Vikas Swarup

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Warren Zevon

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

Waylon Jennings

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