Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

To friendship every burden's light.

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.