Rejection Quotes

Sometimes communicating our feeling through the words of others is the best way to express how we feel, especially when we are not particularly good at it using our own words for the job. Rejection is the one thing that most of us are most afraid of and don’t receive it well. Rejection does not always come from the opposite sex only. A person can get rejected by their favorite college, or be denied a job at the company a person has wanted to join for a very long time. Expressing rejection can be difficult for a person and sometimes calls for some help. This help is not the kind that will overturn the rejection but it will help the person express how they feel about it in an eloquent way. This article will present you with a list of some handpicked quotes that can help you with finding the right words that can voice your feelings.

Quotes On Rejection

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. - John Powell
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. - Sylvester Stallone
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. - Bo Bennett
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
Always remember that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. - Abraham Lincoln
If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. - Lance Armstrong
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. - Zig Ziglar
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
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius
Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. - Billy Joel
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. - Graves, Earl G.
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 Lee Burke

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