Burden Quotes

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

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

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

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

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

I don't live under the burden of worries. Problems and challenges are there, you can't deny that. But you must challenge the challenges and not let the challenges turn into worries.

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

Cry my eyes out for days upon days Such a heaven burden placed upon me

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

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.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

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're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.