You can’t make the decision for someone else to reject you. Take the risk!

Fire is harmful unless it’s controlled. Then it provides warmth, enables us to cook, and sets a romantic tone when contained in a fireplace.

Your response to rejection is the same way. When your response is unbridled, it can devastate. When your response is controlled, it can be used to motivate you, stir you into action, and bring you closer to your goals.

Be careful not to compare how insecure you feel about yourself on the inside with how polished others may look on the outside.

The more perfect another person appears to be, the more likely they feel inadequate.

It ought to be with a sense of relief, not a sense of compromise and reluctance, that we come to the conclusion that we are not and never will be perfect.

Your own life is your competition.

Rejection causes pain but like physical pain, it goes away.

By understanding that all rejection is beneficial, you’ll be able to open-mindedly examine each rejection rather than allowing negativity to creep in and take over.

Positive thinking people use rejection to motivate them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Hang on to your vision.

We conquer by continuing.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Submitting to fear and avoiding rejection takes away our freedom to dream.

When we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

When you continue exploring your possibilities, great ideas emerge that can benefit you and others in a big way.

Every lasting success involves overcoming rejection.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

Their pride often got the best of them. Rather than face the fear of embarrassment, they would simply reject the idea.

Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

You look at anything I've been a part of, it's when the laboring, the fatigue, when some of those things happen, that's what shows what you're going to be.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I feel bad for people who dont drink. When they wake up in the morning thats as good as theyre going to feel all day.

Believe you can achieve your hockey goals and youre halfway there.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.