Top 100 Quotes About Burdens
#1. Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#2. Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.
Herman Melville
#3. If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what Christianity is all about. God never intended for us to walk this world alone, and Christ did not die for us to keep His love all to ourselves.
Jen Stephens
#5. You have as many burdens on your shoulders as you choose to place there.
Art Hochberg
#6. God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, and I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of lining up with the other invalids and asking for mine to be alleviated.
Ann Napolitano
#7. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.
James Richardson
#9. Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.
Francesco Petrarca
#10. "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
#11. Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
The burdens laid upon our mortal being
Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.
Phoebe Cary
#12. In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Ike Skelton
#13. No mother's nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.
Gloria Furman
#14. Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.
Alice Hoffman
#17. Every choice we make affects the other. It always has ... We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone - You have never been alone.
Olivia Fuller
#18. Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.
Michael Parenti
#19. It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#20. We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.
Charles Stanley
#21. America's promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That's one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.
Barack Obama
#22. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#23. That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober
this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. It is in carrying heavier burdens than we think we can bear that we become stronger.
Brent Weeks
#25. take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
Louisa May Alcott
#26. Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
Eli Broad
#27. Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.
Anonymous
#28. We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
Ann Romney
#29. But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
Edward Gibbon
#30. I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.
Robin Hobb
#31. The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.
Maya Angelou
#32. Before the 20th century, there was no such thing as "teenagers." There were children and adults, and the goal of the former was to mature quickly in order to bear the burdens and enjoy the opportunities and blessings of the latter.
Joel Hilliker
#33. Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men
A. Igoni Barrett
#34. And so love and sacrifice is the law of Christ. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." The law of Christ is the bearing of others' burdens, the sharing of others' griefs, sacrificing yourself for another.
A.B. Simpson
#35. To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
Dallas Willard
#36. God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
Margaret to Bessy re: trials & burdens we all carry
Elizabeth Gaskell
#37. We may not be of the same blood, but we are brothers. Every Warrior here is my brethren. Doona carry your burdens alone. They will eventually bury you.
Donna Grant
#38. He who is able to lift heavy weights is strong;
he who is able to carry heavy burdens is great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.
Jodi Picoult
#40. 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.
Joseph Hume
#41. Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.
Pam Brown
#42. Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully.
Bryant McGill
#44. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.
Auberon Herbert
#45. And men who accept the burdens of regret, whether in respect of watercolors or of anything else, are not the stuff that men of the world are made of.
Soseki Natsume
#46. In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children ... with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.
Fritz Sauckel
#47. None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
William Jennings Bryan
#50. I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.
James Madison
#51. A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt
Dennis O'Neil
#52. The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.
Quentin L. Cook
#53. Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.
Jan C. Ting
#54. At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am glad of it. For I now no longer have the time to fall into such sins as I committed as a girl, when hours that were my own to spend spread before me like a gift.
Geraldine Brooks
#55. No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
Barack Obama
#56. I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#57. You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.
Cassandra Clare
#58. Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens.
Marc Secchia
#60. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.
Micheal Rivers
#61. We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people.
William J. Clinton
#62. Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#63. Not, "He shall one day grant a revival, and then next day leave His Church to barrenness." His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
Charles Dickens
#66. When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.
Anne Graham Lotz
#67. The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
A.E. Samaan
#68. God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. Yet this verse tells us that if we will give our burdens to the Lord, sometimes even on a moment-by-moment basis, he will carry them for us. What a promise! What an invitation! We have a Savior who cares for us intimately and is thinking about us constantly.
Cheri Fuller
#70. If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
Victor Ponta
#71. Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensit going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.
Anne Graham Lotz
#72. Autumn leaves snap and crackle
Seasons carry gravity,
Burdens, dreams,
Seeing and things.
Abigail George
#74. I am, a shadow
that grows longer as the sun
moves, drawn out
on a thread of wonder.
If I bear burdens
they begin to be remembered
as gifts, goods, a basket
of bread that hurts
my shoulders but closes me
in fragrance. I can
eat as I go.
("Stepping Westward")
Denise Levertov
#75. She'd often thought that was what a good marriage would mean. Sometimes she would take on all the burdens, and sometimes her husband would. Most of the time they would share them.
Susan Mallery
#76. Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.
Anne Tyler
#77. Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.
John Hagee
#78. Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
Margaret Mitchell
#79. Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.
Sam Ervin
#80. No matter how silly I think it all is, society is still society and we are not free of the burdens of hate.
Suzanne Palmieri
#81. Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson
#82. It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.
Vincent De Paul
#83. Use the talents you've developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as fortunate and to seek truth humbly, without insisting that you hold the only keys to it.
Laura Burroughs
#84. Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.
Tim Tebow
#85. Often blessings and burdens comes hand in hand. The bigger the Crown the heavier the burden
Jeanette Coron
#86. The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#87. Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
Ted Cruz
#88. Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
John Updike
#89. Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#90. Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
#91. Your burden is not to clear your conscience
But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.
T. S. Eliot
#92. Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
Walter Raleigh
#93. Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?
Nadege Richards
#94. There is only one real burden of life: The Death. All other burdens can always be handled!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
#96. He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
R. Scott Bakker
#97. I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens
Louisa May Alcott
#98. Write your sins on apples still hanging on the tree; when they fall away so do your burdens (There
Jandy Nelson
#99. We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.
Salley Vickers
#100. Gave so much time and thought to units - the Nation, the Race, Humanity-as-a-Whole - that it laid terrific burdens on humanity as individuals. To benefit the monster of Humanity-as-a-Whole, they even fought wars - which killed off humanity, individually, at a fearful rate.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
