Burden Quotes - Page 6

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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• I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

  Rikki Rockett

  Brother, Zero, Animal

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• Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

  Richard McGuire

  Baggage

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Xmas, Earth

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• If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Prayer, Helping Others, Making A Difference

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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• Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, May, He Man

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• I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, Want

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• Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Inspirational, Hero, Writing

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

  Janos Kadar

  Leadership, Party, Past

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• Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

  Bob Schaffer

  Growth, Economic, Reducing

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• When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mayors, Heavy, Presidency

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

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• Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

  Aly Khan

  Islam, Roles, Unjust

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• We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.

  Charles Kingsley

  Bible, Biblical, Special

  "Politics for the People".

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• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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• The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

  Martin Luther

  Wish, Satan, Beast

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Kings, Women

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans

  Gavin Newsom

  San Francisco, Challenges, Cost

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• The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  Ike Skelton

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

  Joseph Hume

  Peculiar, Protection, Relieved

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• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  William Graham Sumner

  Crush, Class, Organization

  William Graham Sumner (1943). “The Forgotten Man's Almanac: Rations of Common Sense from William Graham Sumner”

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• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  George Washington

  Patience, Inspiration, 4th Of July

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