Top 100 Quotes About Burdens
#1. When dailiness enters memory, repetition fixes places in the mind, but it also burdens them with a wealth of experience that is often difficult to untangle.
Siri Hustvedt
#2. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
#3. This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.
Neal Stephenson
#4. Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.
Lysa TerKeurst
#5. When you live to lift the burdens of others, your own burdens become lighter. You are able to face your own trials with greater acceptance, a more understanding heart, and deeper gratitude for what you have rather than pining for what you lack.
David S. Baxter
#6. Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive.
Ryan Holiday
#7. I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
Leland Stanford
#8. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and ye break every yoke?
Anonymous
#9. We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
Judd Gregg
#10. Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."
~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
and bearing one another's burdens.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?
Talbot Mundy
#13. The cost of health care and the cost of cars and fuel are huge burdens on families and businesses. We can reduce health care costs NOW by promoting biking, walking and transit.
Steve Novick
#14. The word decease literally means "exodus" or "going out." The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
Billy Graham
#15. Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.
David Carr
#16. Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.
Grover Cleveland
#17. So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.
Daniel H. Pink
#18. Don't be too eager to rid yourself of your burdens. Your burdens are what shape you.
J. Scott Savage
#19. What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
DeForest Soaries
#20. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.
Louisa May Alcott
#22. The burdens that one person alone can shoulder...aren't very big at all, I think. So it's a good thing that they're a "pair." It's good the two of them met.
Hotaru Odagiri
#23. Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
Ernestine Rose
#24. Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.
Jim DeMint
#25. Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.
John Cotton
#26. Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
Thomas A Kempis
#27. A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.
Mark Lawrence
#28. If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
George S. Clason
#29. What people want is not the easy peaceful life that allows us to think of our unhappy condition, nor the dangers of war, nor the burdens of office, but the agitation that takes our mind off it and diverts us. That is why we prefer the hunt to the capture.
Blaise Pascal
#30. Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
Gao Xingjian
#31. 25It is good. The Eternal One is good to those who expect Him, to those who seek Him wholeheartedly. 26It is good to wait quietly for the Eternal to make things right again. 27It is good to have to deal with restraint and burdens when young.
Anonymous
#32. pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.
Arthur C. Brooks
#33. In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.
Rebecca Solnit
#34. No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.
Joel Osteen
#35. He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.
Dean Koontz
#36. One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.
Rajneesh
#37. Obstacles are maps inside out.
Troubles are opportunities inside out.
Failures are lessons inside out.
Burdens are blessings inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. Why must one climb the hill ? Why must one climb? Why not stay below? Why force one's way up the slope? Why force one's way up and up, when one is at the bottom? Oh, it was very tiring, very wearying, very burdensome. Always burdens, always, always burdens.
D.H. Lawrence
#39. In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.
Thomas Jefferson
#40. Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.
Richard Paul Evans
#41. When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#42. If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?
Jonathan Edwards
#43. We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.
Helen Keller
#44. So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes ... I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
Ulysses S. Grant
#45. There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.
Billy Graham
#46. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens.
Dorothy Day
#47. Death is the privilege of human nature
And life without it were not worth our taking
Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner
Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.
Elizabeth Fama
#48. Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
Peter S. Beagle
#49. When we truly forgive in our hearts, not only do we purify ourselves from the heavy burdens of negative karma but we begin to create a new space for positive energy to enter this world. When we forgive, we are no longer chained to the negative actions we have created in the past.
Christopher Dines
#50. It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.
John Griffin Carlisle
#51. Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.
Salman Rushdie
#52. Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.
Brandi Carlile
#53. What if I was born into a normal life, one without a tortured childhood and without the weight of so many responsibilities and burdens?
Kelly St. Clare
#54. We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
Watchman Nee
#55. Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Rumi
#56. I came to think of God as more of a gracious friend who was accompanying me on this journey, a friend who wanted to carry my burdens and speak into my life and shape me into who I really was and who I would become.
Joanna Gaines
#57. The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
Andrew Solomon
#58. An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith
#59. When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.
Darmie Orem
#60. Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.
James Randi
#61. The purest of heart often carries the heaviest burdens.
Marie Sabillo
#62. Now in my middle fifties, an irrelevant codger, I find it discomfiting to see this generation dancing to the music of apocalypse and carrying their psychic burdens in front of them like infants in arms.
Julie Schumacher
#63. To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. If you want a candidate who is led the fight against Obamacare, who will lift the burdens on small businesses and bring back jobs, I'm the only candidate in the race with that proven record.
Ted Cruz
#65. Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
Walter Lippmann
#66. Our heavenly Father's arms are gentle, but strong enough to carry us and all of our burdens. - Brad Dixon
Gary Chapman
#67. It doesn't matter whether I can repair it or not. I want to be part of your life, and that also means the tough moments. I may not be able to solve the situation, but I can sure as hell listen to you. Hold you. Offer you my support. Shoulder your burdens. Soothe your pain.
Elle Aycart
#68. The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings
Warren W. Wiersbe
#69. Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#70. San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
Gavin Newsom
#71. If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano
#72. God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#73. Only time conquers time and its burdens.
Dean Koontz
#74. Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm
Renae A. Sauter
#75. I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Abraham Lincoln
#76. God does not ask us to carry burdens. He does not ask us to save the world. He does not ask us to come up with a plan. He simply asks us to 'come'.
Emily P. Freeman
#77. When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#78. This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know; Its burdens growin' lighter- An' it's Love that makes 'em so! An' I'm thankful that I'm livin' Where Love's blessedness I see, 'Neath a Heaven that's forgivin' Where the bells ring 'Home' to me!
Frank Lebby Stanton
#79. Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
Michael Bassey
#80. I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.
Albert Einstein
#81. If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise
Richard Gerber
#82. And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.
Hillary Clinton
#83. A husband comes home from satsang and greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. His wife is surprised and asks, 'Did the Swami ji preach about being romantic today?' Her husband replies, 'No, he said we must carry our burdens and sorrows with a smile.
Khushwant Singh
#84. Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.
John Baillie
#85. If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
Richard Carmona
#86. He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
Martial
#87. We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us.
Kat Lahr
#88. I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.
Matt Shultz
#89. Some days the burdens may seem so heavy and the weariness so profound that you may wonder if God has forsaken you. Why would He allow you to experience such deep adversity? Yet do not despair. He has a clear purpose for your suffering: so you will know the Savior better and reflect His character.
Charles F. Stanley
#90. Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon Webster
#91. Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.
Helen Yglesias
#92. Indecisive? Uncertain? Worried? Let the rolling ivory tumble your burdens away. $2.50 per pair.
Luke Rhinehart
#93. One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people's suspicions.
Jonathan Capehart
#94. An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Ad Reinhardt
#95. Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal.
A.C. Grayling
#96. we have to be thoughtful about the burdens we insist that other people carry, especially when we don't have to carry those same burdens ourselves.
Ken Wilson
#97. Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
Frederick Grant Banting
#98. When we use love to lighten the burdens of others, life mysteriously enlightens our paths and lightens our burdens too.
Debasish Mridha
#99. In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren
#100. You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.
Vernor Vinge
