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Frustration Quotes

For the days that test your patience.

This set gathers voices from sport, creative work, and public life who each describe reaching a breaking point after repeated setbacks. Continue reading with Anger quotes.

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

Quotes by Agnes Obel

When you're a chill, laid back guy, you maybe have more pent-up frustration, anger, bitterness, than maybe somebody a little wilder would have.

Quotes by Adam Page

E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind...

Quotes by Adam Hasner

When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One...

Quotes by Aaron Schock

Always Quotes

In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as...

Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.

Quotes by Whitney Cummings

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

Quotes by Walter Smith

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.

Quotes by Vera Wang

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated...

Quotes by Valerie Jarrett

Anger Quotes

I've been told so many times that I should go to the gym to get my anxiety and frustration out. But it just makes me feel pure, concentrated dread.

Quotes by Tuppence Middleton

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and...

Quotes by Tom Rachman

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

Quotes by Tom Berenger

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Quotes by Temple Grandin

Being Quotes

While in two very different sectors, both Skype and TransferWise were born out of frustration.

Quotes by Taavet Hinrikus

In 2011, when we launched TransferWise, it was our frustration with banks not giving us what we wanted or needed as customers. The motivation was a strong desire to solve a problem and not just fix something that was broken...

Quotes by Taavet Hinrikus

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held...

Quotes by Susan Bysiewicz

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Quotes by Sumner Redstone

Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.

Quotes by Stockard Channing

Feel Quotes

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

Quotes by Steven Gerrard

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Frustration quotes page focus on?
It gathers honest admissions of frustration from sport, creative work, and everyday annoyances, showing the feeling in both big and small forms.
Why do people search for frustration quotes?
Naming a frustrating moment out loud, even through someone else's words, often makes the feeling easier to sit with.
Are all these quotes about major life setbacks?
No, one line is about something as small as a shirt covered in an unwanted logo, proving frustration is not reserved for big problems.
What broader feeling do people mention alongside frustration?
Several samples connect frustration to the sense that progress is happening more slowly than expected or promised.
What should I read next in a similar mood?
Try the Anger quotes page for a related but more intense emotional register.

Even small irritations make the list, proving frustration shows up in ordinary details as much as major disappointments. Pair this with Being or Feel quotes.