Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more

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.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital read more

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.

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

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

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were read more

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

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you read more

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. Only vegetables are happy.

No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible

No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his read more

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.