His Own Hands Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.
— Janet Morris
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He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and…
— Salvador de Madariaga
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own…
— William O. Douglas
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
— Salvador de Madariaga
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How…
— Ibn Hazm
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He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.
— Umar
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Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most…
— Adolf Hitler
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He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in…
— Frederick Douglass
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education…
— Robert Henri
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not…
— Philip Guston
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The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every…
— Noah Webster
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There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own…
— Hannah Arendt
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The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not…
— Thomas Boston
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Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at…
— Yukito Kishiro
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is…
— Horatio Nelson
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When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
— Robert Bolt
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When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see…
— E.C. Riegel
Who Wrote These His Own Hands Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 His Own Hands Quotes as follows: