Rejection Quotes | Sayings on Resilience in the Face of Rejection

The worst thing a guy could do for a girl? Personally I think it’s to ignore her while she’s loving you with all her heart.
– Liam Payne

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
– Chuck Palahniuk

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Have you ever been dumped? Don’t despair, you’ve just earned yourself a chance to be loved by someone better!

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always make you feel that, but the real great make you feel that you too can become great.

Don’t feel bad if someone rejects you or ignore you. People usually reject and ignore expensive things because they can’t afford them.

Rejection is just a redirection to something better.

I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want me.
– Oprah Winfrey

I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I found no rejection, I choose to love you in my dreams, for in my dreams no one owns you but me.

A clear rejection is better than a fake promise.
– Leonardo DiCaprio

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
– Steve Maraboli

Human rejection can be God’s divine protection.
– Paula Hendricks

If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.
– Dolly Parton

When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.
– Shannon L. Alder

Rejection is a challenge.
– Veronica Purcell

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Rejection is not a failure, but a chance to improve, learn and try again with more experience and knowledge.

Rejection is not failure, it’s feedback.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
– Marcus Aurelius

Stop rejecting new relationships just because old ones didn’t work. Next thing you know you rejected the one that God made for you by mistake. Yes never give up on finding your soul mate. Searching for true love and finding it? Is priceless!!

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Rejection is a reminder that the only thing we can control is our own effort and attitude.

Rejection is the universe’s way of saying ‘not yet’.

Rejection is not a reflection of your worth, it’s a sign that something better is out there waiting for you.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.
– Bryant McGill

When someone you love rejects you it can make you feel like you’re not good enough, but you have to realize that rejection is a sign that you’re trying to be with someone that you’re not meant to be with.

They call it a crush because that’s how you feel after you find out they don’t like you back.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

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

Learn to eat rejection ? it will make you stronger.
– Bob Ragland

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 puts you out of your comfort zone which is usually when you’re at your best.
– Stewart Stafford

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
– Marilyn Monroe

Rejection is a part of life, but it doesn’t define you. It’s only a temporary setback on the way to your ultimate goal.

Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rejection gives you more power to push forward.
– Jeremy Limn

No one’s scared of heights, they’re just scared of falling. No one’s scared of swimming, their just afraid of drowning. No one’s afraid of love, they’re just afraid of rejection…

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

Rejection is just another word for ‘not the right fit’.

Rejection is not the opposite of acceptance, it’s just a part of the process.

It hurts so bad to be ignored or rejected by that only person who means the world to you.
– Lee Atuo

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 is a necessary step on the path to success, it’s a sign that you’re pushing yourself and taking risks.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
– Ray Bradbury

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

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
– Alexander Chase

Rejection is not a sentence, it’s a comma in the story of your life.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
– Jeanette Winterson

Being in love with the God that will never reject you is the security needed to endure any other rejection that comes your way.

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

I still remember the time you were almost mine. The time I almost told I loved you, but I just couldn’t. You were standing there waiting for me to say it but it just wouldn’t come out. Maybe I was too afraid to admit my feelings to you, fearing you would reject me but I hope someday you’ll realize how much you meant to me.

After rejection – misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
– Mason Cooley

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
– Lance Armstrong

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.
– Tama J. Kieves

Rejected pieces aren’t failures; unwritten pieces are.
– Greg Daugherty

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, “To hell with you.”
– Saul Bellow

When someone rejects you they’re always on your mind. Not because you love them, but because they don’t love you and that bothers you

Falling in love not only brings excitement and fulfillment; it also creates anxiety and fears of rejection and potential loss.

It’s hard to admit that someone DOESN’T love you back. So, you hold on to them until you have no choice but to admit it.

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

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
– Bo Bennett

There’s nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
– James Lee Burke

Rejection leads to inspiration, as now I have to work much harder towards achieving my goal, your eternal smile

I don’t fear love, I fear the rejection you might bring along with it.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
– Bo Bennett

The effects of rejection can either kill your muse or change your life.
– Jane Champagne

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
– Louise Brown

Not being loved back hurts, but realize that they can’t make themselves love you. Love can’t be controlled.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
– Sylvester Stallone

When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves.

Just because the most important person in your life rejects you, does not change who you are.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours – so enjoy the view.
– Michael York

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.
– Larry Kramer

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
– T S Eliot

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
– James Lee Burke

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

We shouldn’t romanticize rejection. There’s nothing romantic about rejection. It’s horrible.
– Marlon James

We will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.
– Earl G. Graves

I don’t really have disappointments because I build myself up for rejection.
– Nicholas Hoult

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

Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self-realisation.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
– Charlie Chaplin

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
– Billy Joel

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated. Jorge Luis Borges.
– Dottie Walters

All great innovations are built on rejections.
– Louis Ferdinand Celine

Love means you keep on loving no matter how many times you have experienced the pain of rejection.

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

There’s no point in dwelling on rejection.
– Isabel Lucas

Isn’t it ridiculous that there are so many people out there who are looking for people to love yet there are so many people around who are still feeling rejected?

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it’s a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it’s no judgment on your story and/or talent.
– Nancy Kress

Don’t get discouraged from all the rejection.
– Joey King

The thing that hurts most is knowing I’m not the reason you’re smiling. And never will be.

Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
– Brian Klemmer

You’ve got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
– Jessica Biel

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