Burden Quotes - Page 2

• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Prayer

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• Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.
  The burden which is well borne becomes light.

  Ovid

  Courage, Light, Fit

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• Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

  Goran Persson

  Sorrow, Remember

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• None knows the weight of another's burden.

  George Herbert

  Weight, Knows

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.250

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• We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

  John Newton

  Life, Attitude, Past

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• God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

  Reggie White

  Motivational Sports, Courage, Athlete

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• No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Burdens Of Life, Worry

  George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

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• Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Time, Work

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Thinking, Criminal Mind

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• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Powerful, Past

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• The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, May, Able

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• The burden of the incommunicable.

  Thomas de Quincey

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

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• If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

  James Van Praagh

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

  James Van Praagh (2011). “Watching Over Us: What the Spirits Can Teach Us About Life”, p.220, Random House

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• Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

  Star Jones

  Sweet, Benefits, Able

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• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Unnecessary, Possession

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

  Richard G. Scott

  Feet, Savior, Lays

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• It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

  Bobby Womack

  Song, Soul, Wish

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• God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Love, Men, Needs

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• If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

  Lord Acton

  Past, History, Obstacles

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.4, VM eBooks

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• Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Grief, Grieving, Losing Someone

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey (1962). “Reader's digest condensed books”

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• The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Solitude, Literature, World

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• 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

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  Max Planck

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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