Burden Quotes

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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult… — Donald Bradman
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to… — Robert Breault
You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing… — Steve Pavlina
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. — William Bernard Ullathorne
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to… — Adi Shankara
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;… — Matthew Henry
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs… — Therese of Lisieux
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though… — John F. Kennedy
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage… — Joseph Addison
The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations. We will sharpen the application of our resources, better… — Leon Panetta
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a… — E. Stanley Jones
I find all this money a considerable burden. — J. Paul Getty
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken… — C.S. Lewis
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge. — Mahatma Gandhi
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt… — Patti Smith

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