Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

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.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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.

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

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

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

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.