Rejection Quotes

We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you’re starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time.

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

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

Friendships exist in the fluctuations between acceptance and rejection.

What some have called rejection, I have called a door and that has made all the difference.

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

It’s kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL.