#frustration

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

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#although #essential #frustration #painful #part

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#break #fail #frustration #impossible #inertia

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

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

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#also #challenge #decathlon #dislike #frustration

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. ↗

— Spike Lee

#being #color #constant #frustration #go

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

#before #determination #done #effective #energy

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. ↗

— Chuck Noll

#coach #enjoyment #frustration #inevitable #life