Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.

God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

Fame is a heavy burden.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

I don't live under the burden of worries. Problems and challenges are there, you can't deny that. But you must challenge the challenges and not let the challenges turn into worries.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.

If 85 percent of Russians support the annexation of Crimea and the aggression against Ukraine, that is a very bad sign. The post-Soviet legacy is a heavy burden: Most Russians want to have the empire back. The only way it is possible to make that happen is to seize foreign territories.

If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise