Quotes about Rejection
Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
— Reinhard Bonnke
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
— H Richard Niebuhr
Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
— Leonard Ravenhill
The reality is, of course, as soon as you think seriously about it, that the mission field is everywhere, including your own street — wherever there is ignorance or rejection of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
— Christopher Wright
Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself the object of jeers, condemnation, rejection. Human speech for him always meant mockery and curses. As he grew older he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught it. He had acquired the general viciousness. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.
— Victor Hugo
God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.
— Victor Hugo
Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.
— Victor Hugo
Rejection and privilege, happiness and woe—no one felt more concretely than Yakov how interchangeable opposites are, how short the step from one pole of human existence to the other.
— Milan Kundera
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
— Joyce Meyer
After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
— Candace Bushnell
Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?
— Candace Bushnell
I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.
— Tullian Tchividjian