In everyone's life there come those times when the finish line seems to be moving out the longer you work, the harder you go.

Or the grades you hope to achieve as proof that you learned all you hoped to learn…well, they prove that you didn't come through at that time, on that test, with as much as you thought you knew.

Or the draft you're trying to write – the harder you work – seems to have a mind of its own.

Whatever the case, on our way to significant goals, there's often a point when frustration or disappointment sets in.

That's when something extra has to kick in.

Or you need to walk away for a while.

Here are ideas from others about that point of frustration and disappointment, and how to handle it all:

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

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

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

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

And then there's this tongue in cheek point of view about helping our children have the right expectations about how life really works:

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.
Fran Lebowitz