If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

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

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

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

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

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

Take rejection as an eye-opener. Take it as something that pushes you and makes you do things better.

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

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

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.

Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it.

Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

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

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

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