Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Fame is a heavy burden.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

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

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.

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.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

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

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 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.

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.