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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• I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.

  Benjamin Watson

  Attitude, Real, Men

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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

  John N. Mitchell

  Love, Incentives, Great Work

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• I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Mother, Eye, America

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  Gary Sinise

  Directors, Actors

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• I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

  John McCain

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

  Chauncey Wright

  Nature, Pain, Caring

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.282, A&C Black

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• At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Guitar, Trying

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• I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

  Terry Gilliam

  Letting Go, Simple, Hair

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• I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

  Allen Carr

  Frustration, Men, Balls

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• I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Vietnam, Levels

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• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Thinking, Boys

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• I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Eight, Years

  "Clarke lines up backers for leadership" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

  Catherine Keener

  Thinking, People, Directors

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