Quotes about Rejection
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
it should now be generally agreed that any concept of hilasterion in the sense of placating, appeasing, deflecting the anger of, or satisfying the wrath of, is inadmissible. The more important, and truly radical, reason for firmly rejecting this understanding of propitiation is that it envisions God as the object, whereas in the Scriptures, God is the acting subject. This is especially noticeable in Romans 3.
— Fleming Rutledge
I spoke to ears that refused to hear.
— Ronald Reagan
Failure has no friends.
— John F. Kennedy
You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance
— Alice Hoffman
As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.
— Alice Hoffman
We love them. We try every way we can to show that love. But they reject us. They never even listen to how we've suffered. And if they listen they say stupid things. Why don't you speak our language? they ask. Why can't you remember the old ways? Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?
— Alice Walker
Did people leave you, did their spirits simply take off, because you wouldn't read a book that turned them on? He now knew the answer was yes.
— Alice Walker
Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.
— Joel Osteen
You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
— Francis Schaeffer
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
— Anonymous
Alas, my Love! ye do me wrongTo cast me off discourteously:And I have loved you so long,Delighting in your company.
— Anonymous