If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice. ~Chinese Proverbs
The burden one likes is cheerfully carried. ~ Traditional Proverb
A burden that one chooses is not felt. ~Italian Proverbs
The heaviest burden is an empty pocket. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure. ~ Jewish Proverb
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. ~Portuguese Proverbs
A buffalo does not feel the weight of its own horns. ~Indian Proverbs
The communal donkey gets the heaviest burden. ~French Proverbs
Nothing is such a heavy burden as a secret is. ~ French Proverb
The truth is a heavy burden that few care to carry. ~ Hebrew Proverb
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. ~ Traditional Proverb
God sends burdens… and shoulders. ~ Yiddish Proverb
He left us and we rejoiced; then an even more unbearable person came. ~Arabian Proverbs
He who has a boss is not the master of his burden. ~ Bambara Proverb
If the mule doesn’t go to the burden, then the burden will come to the mule. ~ Tajikistani Proverb
On an empty belly every burden is heavy. ~Russian Proverbs
Bear patiently that which you suffer by your own fault. ~Dutch Proverbs
Everyone thinks his own burden heavy. ~ French Proverb
An old man in the house is a burden, but an old woman is a treasure. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The burden tames the beast. ~ French Proverb
Common grief is lighter to bear. ~ Montenegro Proverb
A sin that is confessed is less heavy to bear. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
If you are not so strong, don’t carry heavy burdens. ~ Chinese Proverb
Misfortune is easier to bear if you share it with many others. ~ Arabian Proverb
Two burdens: to Moses water, to God the world. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Quotations about Burdens
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ~ Hosea Ballou
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Respect the burden. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
None knows the weight of another’s burden. ~ George Herbert
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. ~ Charles Dickens
It’s easier traveling the road of life when I don’t have so much to carry on my back. ~ Silas Weir Mitchell
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” ~ St. Augustine
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. ~ Phillips Brooks
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ~ Samuel Smiles
Everyone carries around his own monsters. ~ Richard Pryor
All we are asked to bear we can bear. ~ Elizabeth Goudge
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-century British Literature. ~Book preview