Growing Weary Quotes

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Meaningful, Thinking

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• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Focus, Firsts, Ability

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• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Focus, Energy

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

  Laurence Binyon

  Death, Morning, Years

  "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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• The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

  Confucius

  Learning, Mind, Growing

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.

  Fiona Apple

  Lying, Struggle, Thinking

  Song: The First Taste, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• Are you looking for answers, to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, You can rest with me until a brighter day It's okay

  Dave Matthews

  Stars, Answers, Growing

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