Burden Quotes - Page 23

• Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, People, Twenties

  Rajiv Gandhi (1985*). “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985”

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• In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

  Marcia Angell

  Successful, Growing, Care

  "Health Reform: Throwing Good Money After the Bad" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2009.

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• The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Ignorant, Done

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• ...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world. You imagine you do. You can hand all your burdens over to His care. Whatever you have to do, you will be made an instrument for doing it at the right time. Do not think you cannot do it unless you have the desire to do it. Desire does not give you the strength for doing. The entire strength is the Lord's.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thinking, Hands, Giving

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• If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Nuisance, Arrogant

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.108, A&C Black

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• Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Hands, Oil

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• Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Blessing, Monkeys, Action

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• 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.

  Nico

  Father, Champion, Needs

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• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  Jim Nussle

  Ifs And, Growing, Economy

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• Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

  Michael Bassey

  Lazy, Needs, Poverty

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• We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving Up, Mistake, Responsibility

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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• 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.

  Philip Rieff

  Past, Men, Weight

  Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Bully, Joy

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• I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

  Jeff Landry

  Morning, Children, President

  FaceBook post by Jeff Landry from Jun 01, 2011

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• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Country, Practice, World

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• Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Retiring, Plans

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• Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Giving, Ungrateful

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

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• It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

  Ben Stiller

  Real, Humorous, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Attitude, People, Trying

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hypocrisy, Villainy

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “The Rambler: By Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.108

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• I live an idle burden to the ground.

  Homer

  Idle, Idleness

  Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.290

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• The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Done, Break

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122

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• If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

  David Hume

  Suicide, Example, Way

  David Hume (2006). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.595, Cosimo, Inc.

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