33 Quotes About Frustration

Know how to handle our frustration can make any situation manageable and able to be mitigated. These quotes about frustration remind us to maintain our control as much as possible.

“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”

“All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to — act as if it were impossible to fail.”

“At one point he decided enough was enough.”

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”

“Expectation is the mother of all frustration.”

“Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you’ve practiced two hundred times. Seriously.”

“Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you’re currently doing isn’t working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.”

“Frustration is an indication of lack of faith and trust in the Lord.”

“Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to sacrifice to become what you would like to be.”

“Frustration is the compost from which the mushrooms of creativity grow.”

“Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.”

“Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.”

“Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It’s poverty; it’s frustration.”

“I have had just about all I can take of myself.”

“I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.”

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

“Is there no way out of the mind.”

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

“It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.”

“It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.”

“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.”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

“Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.”

“Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.”

“No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible.”

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”

“People need trouble — a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.”

“Writing is frustration – it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”

“You throw the sand against the wind; And the wind blows it back again.”

Frustration can inadvertently assist us in being more creative in the decisions and actions we take.