Quotes About Burden

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.

There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.

I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. I didn't really know he was; we just hung out as comedians together, and when he heard my story, he said, 'Why don't you tell that on stage?' I didn't really want to burden people with all that, but he said that I could have fun with it.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.

Testifying before Congress, Dr. Laughlin said sterilization laws would lead to lower taxes, lessening the burden of society to take care of people with epilepsy, the blind, the deaf, and the mentally disabled, not to mention the high cost of jailing criminals prone to music and art.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Sure, that sounds kinda cool," I'd say, dropping it in the calendar. Later, I'd pay the price of massive distraction and overwhelm. My agenda became a list of everyone else's agendas. Saying yes to too much "cool" will bury you alive and render you a B-player, even if you have A-player skills. To develop your edge initially, you learn to set priorities; to maintain your edge, you need to defend against the priorities of others.