~ Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. ~
~ Frustration is the compost from which the mushrooms of creativity grow. ~
~ 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. ~
~ All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail. ~
~ My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. ~
~ 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 who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. ~
~ He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. ~
~ People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. ~
~ Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration. ~
~ Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. ~