Laura Kightlinger Quotes

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Man is not made for defeat.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

Every little bit of hate just gees me on to do better and prove them all wrong.

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

The best piece of life advice I've ever been given is to not take every no to heart - especially with my Little Fires Everywhere audition story.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

A lot of people have been rejected and they just give up. I have never had that mentality.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

I just spent five, six years sacrificing so much to try and fit into that one ideal, that one small standard, and I was never good enough. And it was just frustration that turned into motivation... That became my ammunition, all the people that told me I couldn't.