When things don't go as planned, you start feeling frustrated. Don't let frustration shake you off. Shifting your mindset to view unexpected obstacles as stepping stones rather than roadblocks is the core of building resilience. Frustration is raw energy, and learning to channel it into patience and focused perseverance turns setbacks into future successes. May these quotes about feeling frustrated offer you insights to help you realize that instead of letting frustration derail your progress, you can use it as fuel for innovation.
1. “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.” – T.F. Hodge
2. “Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone
3. “It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.” – Ann Marie Aguilar
4. “Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea.” – Marley Dias
5. “There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.” – Kyle Lowry
6. “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” – Dale Carnegie
7. “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.” – Eric Hoffer
8. “Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver
9. “The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.” – Lynn Nottage
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10. “Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.” – Mark Goulston
11. “I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.” – David Gilmour
12. “If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.” – Ralph Marston
13. “It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.” – Lech Walesa
14. “I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.” – Beyonce Knowles
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15. “Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” – Leon Trotsky
16. “To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.” – Hugh Prather
17. “Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.” – Joyce Meyer
18. “Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
19. “Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.” – Wayne Dyer
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20. “The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.” – Robert Lopez
21. “Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.” – Michael Stuhlbarg
22. “Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.” – Ewan McGregor
23. “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut
24. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” – Bo Bennett
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25. “For me, being upset is different than being frustrated. Frustration, it's a little more deep inside. Being upset, you can get over it the next day.” – Raphael Assuncao
26. “The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.” – Charles Bronson
27. “I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.” – Sam Levinson
28. “When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.” – Dimple Kapadia
29. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame them, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.” – Casey Stengel
30. “Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.” – Tim Gunn
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31. “You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” – Ralph Marston
32. “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.” – Anthony Robbins
33. “Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” – Antonio Banderas
34. “Frustration is the nagging feeling that tells us we are not listening or following our intuition.” – J.R. Incer
35. “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
36. “The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.” – Elizabeth Drew
37. “The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.” – E. Stanley Jones
38. “Trying to please everyone is a recipe for stress, misery, and frustration. Be yourself. It’ll be good to know who’s down with that.” – Anonymous
39. “Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.” – Mark Goulston
40. “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
41. “Explain your anger instead of expressing it, and you’ll find solutions instead of arguments.” – Anonymous
42. “People need trouble. A little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.” – William Faulkner
43. “Of course, everyone has those moments of frustration now and then. When you say, I wish I could play well already, or just stop. But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.” – Hilary Hahn
44. “No matter what type of anger or frustration we have to struggle with, a clear picture of how our faith in God is the answer to anything we need to overcome.” – Carol Graham
45. “It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.” – Steve Maraboli
46. “When you work hard, you are not going to be happy the whole time, you are going to have frustration, bad times in life.” – Emiliano Martinez
47. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It's yours.” – Ayn Rand
48. “When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.” – Vermin Supreme
49. “At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.” – Kevin Garnett
50. “The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.” – Silvano Arieti
51. “Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of frustration.” – Donna Barr
52. “I’m not sure what’s more exhausting: the problem, or my reaction to it.” – Anonymous
53. “All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.” – Tony Robbins
54. “Frustration is not an event, it is a feeling. It’s a message that says your thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with your desires.” – Susan L. Taylor
55. “Frustration is not an interruption of your purpose; it is often a confrontation with the very lesson you need to learn next.” – Anonymous
56. “Frustration is not a sign of progress—a signal that your mind is processing complexity and requires more practice.” – Robert Greene
57. “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude
58. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
59. “Frustration is the first step toward improvement.” – John Bingham
60. “Learn how to turn frustration into fascination.” – Jim Rohn
61. “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.” – Anonymous
62. “Sometimes your mind is caught in a war between what you want to feel and what you actually feel.” – Anonymous
63. “It is in imposing my expectations on others that I birth my greatest frustrations.” – Stephen R. Covey
64. “Turn your frustrations into something productive.” – Steven Magee
65. “Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of what we want, not what is.” – Anonymous
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2. “Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone
3. “It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.” – Ann Marie Aguilar
4. “Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea.” – Marley Dias
5. “There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.” – Kyle Lowry
6. “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” – Dale Carnegie
7. “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.” – Eric Hoffer
8. “Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver
9. “The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.” – Lynn Nottage
11. “I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.” – David Gilmour
12. “If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.” – Ralph Marston
13. “It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.” – Lech Walesa
14. “I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.” – Beyonce Knowles
16. “To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.” – Hugh Prather
17. “Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.” – Joyce Meyer
18. “Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
19. “Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.” – Wayne Dyer
21. “Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.” – Michael Stuhlbarg
22. “Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.” – Ewan McGregor
23. “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut
24. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” – Bo Bennett
26. “The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.” – Charles Bronson
27. “I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.” – Sam Levinson
28. “When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.” – Dimple Kapadia
29. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame them, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.” – Casey Stengel
30. “Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.” – Tim Gunn
More Feeling Frustrated Quotes
31. “You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” – Ralph Marston
32. “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.” – Anthony Robbins
33. “Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” – Antonio Banderas
34. “Frustration is the nagging feeling that tells us we are not listening or following our intuition.” – J.R. Incer
35. “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
36. “The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.” – Elizabeth Drew
37. “The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.” – E. Stanley Jones
38. “Trying to please everyone is a recipe for stress, misery, and frustration. Be yourself. It’ll be good to know who’s down with that.” – Anonymous
39. “Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.” – Mark Goulston
40. “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
41. “Explain your anger instead of expressing it, and you’ll find solutions instead of arguments.” – Anonymous
42. “People need trouble. A little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.” – William Faulkner
43. “Of course, everyone has those moments of frustration now and then. When you say, I wish I could play well already, or just stop. But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.” – Hilary Hahn
44. “No matter what type of anger or frustration we have to struggle with, a clear picture of how our faith in God is the answer to anything we need to overcome.” – Carol Graham
45. “It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.” – Steve Maraboli
46. “When you work hard, you are not going to be happy the whole time, you are going to have frustration, bad times in life.” – Emiliano Martinez
47. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It's yours.” – Ayn Rand
48. “When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.” – Vermin Supreme
49. “At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.” – Kevin Garnett
50. “The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.” – Silvano Arieti
51. “Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of frustration.” – Donna Barr
52. “I’m not sure what’s more exhausting: the problem, or my reaction to it.” – Anonymous
53. “All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.” – Tony Robbins
54. “Frustration is not an event, it is a feeling. It’s a message that says your thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with your desires.” – Susan L. Taylor
55. “Frustration is not an interruption of your purpose; it is often a confrontation with the very lesson you need to learn next.” – Anonymous
56. “Frustration is not a sign of progress—a signal that your mind is processing complexity and requires more practice.” – Robert Greene
57. “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude
58. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
59. “Frustration is the first step toward improvement.” – John Bingham
60. “Learn how to turn frustration into fascination.” – Jim Rohn
61. “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.” – Anonymous
62. “Sometimes your mind is caught in a war between what you want to feel and what you actually feel.” – Anonymous
63. “It is in imposing my expectations on others that I birth my greatest frustrations.” – Stephen R. Covey
64. “Turn your frustrations into something productive.” – Steven Magee
65. “Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of what we want, not what is.” – Anonymous
Share these frustrated about Life Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.