Hands Quotes

• The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Inspiration, Heart, Architecture

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• There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Mistake, Men, Excuse

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Hands have their own language.

  Simon Van Booy

  Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.106, Oneworld Publications

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  It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Creating

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

  Nelson Mandela

  World, Better Place

  "It always seems impossible until it's done": Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday celebrated with 94 great images of his life", www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.

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• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• The art of life is to show your hand.

  E. V. Lucas

  Life, Art, Existence

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• It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Wonderful

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• The hand is the tool of tools.

  Aristotle

  Tools, Materials

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• God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, God, Religious

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.21, B&H Publishing Group

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• I look at my own body
  With eyes no longer blind-
  And I see that my own hands can make
  The world that's in my mind.

  Langston Hughes

  Eye, Mind, Looks

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• What the hand does the mind remembers.

  Maria Montessori

  Mind, Doe, Remember

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• Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

  "Henry VI".

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• Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

  Clint Eastwood

  Change, Reality, Want

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• The devil finds work for idle hands.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Devil

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• Build a bridge by extending your hand.

  Ken Poirot

  Bridges, Extending

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• Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

  Jane Addams

  Hull House, Significance, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Artist, Labor Day

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• Extend your hand with the strongest reach.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Generosity, Strongest

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• There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Bravery, Mind, Hard

  William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.149

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memorable, Water, Rafting

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• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

  Martin Luther

  Life, God, Christian

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• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Cutting, Understanding

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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