Frustrated Quotes

• It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

  Lech Walesa

  Frustration, Bitterness, Mood

  Lech Walesa's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1983.

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• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  Paul Weller

  Music, Frustration, Guitar

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Anger, Frustration, Confusion

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• Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside

  Rosanna Arquette

  Art, Hurt, Jobs

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• Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Spiritual, Fun

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• If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Truthful

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Real, Believe, Character

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• When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Anger, Hatred, Rage

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• Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

  John N. Mitchell

  Love, Incentives, Great Work

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• If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

  Paula Cole

  Meaning Of Life, Answers, Way

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

  Shannen Doherty

  Granted, Eleven, Right Now

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• I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Issues, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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• Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Frustration, Careers

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.87, Penguin

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• Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Frustration, Skulls

  1957 InVogue,1Apr.

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• I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Retirement, Struggle, Thinking

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• The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall, Writing, Editors

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

  Irving Kristol

  Real, Want, Disaster

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Should Have, Appreciate

  "Johnny Depp: I was angry and frustrated until my first child was born". Interview with Grant Rollings, www.thesun.co.uk. May 7, 2012.

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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• And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

  Elton John

  Doctors, Littles, Sometimes

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. January 25, 2002.

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• I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Break Up, Breakup

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 20, 2016

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