Rejection Quotes

807 quotes by 600 authors

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. — Nolan Bushnell
There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves. — Barnes Wallis
There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it. — Seth Godin
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in… — Mahathir Mohamad
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I… — Pat Robertson
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But… — Paul Bloom
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on… — John Shelby Spong
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a… — Dave Hunt
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… — Vikas Swarup
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead. — Warren Adler
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer
Be stimulated by rejection — Bob Gill
I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid… — John Farrar
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Vicente Fox
Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever… — Unknown Author
For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows… — Paulo Coelho
I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a… — Gwendolyn Brooks
I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write… — MaryJanice Davidson

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