Burden Quotes

• 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
  • Enjoy
  • Littles
  • Active

• You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Future
  • Slavery
  • Aliens

• Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Grief
  • Used
  • Anchors

• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Accepting

• The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Burden
  • Sensations
  • Experiencing

• I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Give

• Over the weeks I am surprised to find that the more stories I record and the longer I carry them around, the lighter they become. I find out that the difference between knowing something and being able to talk about it is that there we many hands now, and we all share the burden...

  

  Brigid Pasulka
  • Stories
  • Burden

• If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

  

  Richard V. Allen
  • Country
  • Children
  • Burden

• Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Journey
  • Christians
  • Lord Jesus

• The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

  

  William James
  • War
  • Interest
  • Individual

• Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Burden
  • Mahatmaship

• That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Dust

• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Social
  • Class
  • Crush

• Every burden prepares you for eternity.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Eternity
  • Burden
  • Prepares

• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • Love
  • Trouble
  • Excuse

• Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Education
  • Burden
  • Non-retention

• Sourav has done an excellent job of balancing his captaincy with his personal game. He looks like he is enjoying being captain. And effectively, he has lightened the burden on Sachin Tendulkar.

  

  Dav Whatmore
  • Done
  • Excellent
  • Captains

• Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Care
  • Disability
  • Assurance

• 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.

  

  Anne Provoost
  • Burden
  • Chosen
  • Heavy

• A vacuum should be weightless, but I stagger under the burden of it.

  

  Erin Kelly
  • Burden
  • Vacuum
  • Weightless

• We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

  

  Harvey V. Fineberg
  • World
  • Disease
  • Illness

• Sweet serenity is found in fervent prayer. Then, we forget ourselves and remember the reaching hands of the Savior, who said, "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." As our burdens are shared with Him, they do become lighter.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Remember
  • Prayer
  • Sweet

• Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Life
  • World
  • Struggle

• Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • God
  • Light
  • Burden

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