49+ Tremendous Idle Hands Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential

The devil finds work for idle hands.
— Henry David Thoreau

Tremendous Idle Hands quotations

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Idle hands quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors. — If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Idle hands quote Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you — Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

Idle hands quote A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. — A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

The Devil finds work for idle hands.

You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

Idle hands quote Hold a true friend with both your hands. — Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

Idle hands make fretful minds.

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

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true.

But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.

Idle hands quote We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch — We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

One is not idle because one is absorbed.

There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Idle hands quote Never put your happiness is someone else's hands. — Never put your happiness is someone else's hands.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

Idle hands quote I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both ha — I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.

Idle hands quote You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's jun — You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate.

To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter.

Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.

If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Idle hands quote Dare to reach your hand into the darkness to pull another hand into the light. — Dare to reach your hand into the darkness to pull another hand into the light.

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success - for a very small sector of the population.

Idle hands quote I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter t — I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

There are at least four things you can do with your hands.

You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.