Top 1200 Constant Rejection Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace

Books are in a constant battle for attention in a very crowded media scape.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God’s law engraved in our hearts.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of 'Lives of Girls and Women,' I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone.

Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

For me doing roles and having a constant connection with the audience is important.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.'

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle, and some things in common with Stoicism as well. The traditions tend, I believe, to talk past each other when it comes to happiness or eudaimonia.

Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.

I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.

What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

As an actor, rejection is a big part of it, and I've had a lot of it. So when there's something that you really want to do, it's so great to have someone to be a part of a team as great as this team is.

Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.

I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.