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• Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Disappointment, Pride, Reality

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.192, Penguin

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• Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

  Mary Douglas

  Jealousy, Believe, Reality

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• It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Gun, People

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rejection

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2016

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• Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.

  Alec Baldwin

  Movie, Strong, Character

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• I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

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• Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Life Is Like, Topography

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

  Phyllis Diller

  Anger, Kitchen, Down And

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• As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the frustration involved in accepting this, and insist on finding some more stable position which affords you peace of mind and intellectual self-complacency, then you will find Kant's position "problematic" in the sense that you can't bring yourself to accept it. You may try to kid yourself into accepting either some naturalistic deflationary answer to the problem or some dishonest supernaturalist answer.

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Lying, Kids

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Tangled, Steps

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 15, 2016

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• I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

  Agnes Obel

  Revenge, Feelings, Motivated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

  Jess Lair

  Children, Goal, Trying

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• Frustration begins where knowledge ends

  Clinton Anderson

  Ends

  Clinton Anderson (2009). “Clinton Anderson: Lessons Well Learned: Why My Method Works for Any Horse”, p.36, Trafalgar Square Books

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• Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.

  Nido R Qubein

  Motivation, Mean, Mobilization

  Nido R. Qubein (1983). “Nido Qubein's Professional selling techniques”

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• Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Disappointment, Insightful, Outcomes

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• Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

  William James

  Reality, Ideas, Facts

  William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic political reform path leads to apathy and the kind of mindless frustration that manifests itself in the Tea Party-style hatred of any and all government.

  Thomas Pogge

  Party, Government, Hatred

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It was Scripture that I had hidden in my heart that quickly came to mind when my frustration felt stronger than my faith.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Heart, Mind, Stronger

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Past, Optimism, Age

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• Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

  Pope John XXIII

  Hope, Thinking, Vatican Ii

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• If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Moving, Organization

  Source: progressive.org

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• The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

  Sarah Dunant

  Boredom, Devil, May

  Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.122, Random House

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Mean, Order

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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