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Rejection Quotes

Failures are the stepping stone towards success, is an old proverb but has got lot of truth in it. But all seems to be in vain when you actually face a rejection or a refusal. We know that it is not the end of the world and we can always start up new, but with every encounter with rejection our senses go blank. It is the fear of facing the consequences of a rejection that stops us from taking it as a challenge to move forward. Gloss through few famous rejection and refusal quotations and sayings to prep up to face it with all positively.

Nora Roberts

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Joey King

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

Charlie Chaplin

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

John David Washington

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

Robert De Niro

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Carl Sandburg

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Daniel Craig

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Christina Ricci

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'