The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. - Max Lerner
To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. - Dana Stabenow
Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think? - Destiny Booze
Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement. - Ana Hart
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. - Stephen Colbert
We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you - Greg Behrendt
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. - Audre Lorde
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. - David T. Dellinger
So many people will tell you no, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them watch me. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn. - Charlotte Eriksson
Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil. - M.F. Moonzajer
God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement. - Gary Rohrmayer
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results. - Euginia Herlihy
We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection - Anna R.
Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines. - Morten Høgsberg
Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection sucks the sweetness out of acceptance. - Charles F. Glassman
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us. - Sigmund Freud
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on. - Angelica Hopes
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret. - Shannon L. Alder
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. - Taylor Swift
Rejection is a challenge. - Veronica Purcell
Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance. - Charles F. Glassman
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley
Rejection allowed me to appreciate the beauty of acceptance. - T S. Edwards
Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting. - Carolyn McCulley
Love anyone and everyone, don't fear for rejection. Love is an inner perception, there is only love, no place for rejection. - Debasish Mridha
Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up. - Richard Castle
Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection. - Christina Engela
It is better to be unhappy with rejection of love than never love. - Debasish Mridha
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. - Charlie Chaplin
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. - Bede Griffiths
The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression. - Criss Jami
People's rejection can be God's direction for you. - Farshad Asl
Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance. - Ramesh Lohia
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity. - Rabindranath Tagore
And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it. - John Steinbeck
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. - Gary Zukav
When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing. - Virginia M. Axline
I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure. - Amit Kalantri
REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION. - Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel. - Morrissey
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. - Bernard Branson
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. - Jane Austen