Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

Communism:  Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Fame is a heavy burden.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

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.

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.

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.

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.