Rejections Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the… — Shirley Henderson
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering… — Sophia Loren
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail. — Jack White
As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved. — Robert Draper
I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and… — Lily Collins
I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but… — Beth Ditto
At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can… — Al Pacino
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and… — Rick Riordan
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. — Edmund White
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in,… — Timothy Egan
Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked… — E. Lockhart
When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by… — Don Rickles
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to… — Danielle Steel
Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to… — Ben Gazzara
Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions,… — Melinda Clarke
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and… — Anthony Horowitz
The three best pieces of advice about handling rejection when it visits your doorstep: 1)Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. 2)Reject… — Brian Klemmer Marcus AureliuRalph Waldo Emerson
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood — Samuel Johnson
When you're looking for love, you are going to have to deal with rejections. You can't expect everyone you fall in love with to fall… — Pacifiersucker
REJECTIONS Has A Useful Purpose That Is, For Us To Learn Either To Change Ourselves For The Better Or To Justify Who We Are. — Pacifiersucker

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