Success Quote by Jincy Willett

“I dropped out of school and congratulated myself for my diligence. Few realize how hard one has to work to resist the pressures of…

— Bauvard

“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this author from…

— Veronica Purcell

“In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're failing anyway.”

— Gregg Levoy

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

— Alex Haley

“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my…

— Steve Jobs

“Here’s a simple intervention to show what a little change in your negative narrative can do. First-year college students who receive worse grades than…

— Richard O'Connor

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

— Karin Slaughter

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

— Carol Leifer

“Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.”

— O. J. Toks

“Success never quite meets your highest expectations, and failure is never as devastating as you feared. The truth is, things are rarely as good…

— Brian Reese

“This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and…

— Iain Hollingshead