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Quotes About Burdens

Ka?dy ma w duszy swoje skeletons.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many of us carry baggage from the past that hinders our ability to fight for the things we want in life, our goals, our dreams. If you learn in this book to let go of those burdensome emotions and memories, then one of my chief objectives will be realized; you will be able to pursue and live your dreams.
~ Les Brown
There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many
~ Les Brown
It is such a comfort to drop the entanglements and perplexities of life into God's hands and leave them there.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
~ Lewis Mumford
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.
~ Unknown
And the truth was that in life on earth there was no such thing as happiness without pain, victory without defeat. There were joy and enchantment and beauty to be garnered on the path, but at all times, too, there were burdens to be borne.
~ Paul Gallico
Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the peasant both, it should be written out and placed in the city square for all to see, it should be written simply and in the language of the common people, lest the people grow weary of their burdens. The young man tipped his head toward the Captain with an odd look on his face, It was a kind of longing, a kind of hope. Who said that? Hammurabi.
~ Paulette Jiles
You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
~ Robert Breault
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
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
no burdens were shed – they were merely passed from the shoulders of one to those of another.
~ Colin Dexter
She was going to be an orphan soon, a woman without parents in the world. Which meant that she was the parent now; the one who had to set the example and do the right thing, even when it was the hard thing, and bear some of her burdens and hurts alone.
~ Jennifer Weiner
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
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
~ Unknown
Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
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.
~ Unknown
Will we trust that God is good even when life is not? Our response to pain and challenges determines so much about our future. If we decide to trust, we will grow in our faith, deepen in our intimacy with God, and be conformed to the image of Christ. But if we allow our hearts to drift, we'll wake up one day drowning in doubts, buried in burdens, and feeling far from the only one who can help us heal.
~ Craig Groeschel
The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
~ D.E. Stevenson
She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy, and the unbearable becomes bearable.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
~ Rumi
God gave burdens also shoulders.
~ Yiddish Proverb