Dirty Hands Quotes

• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

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  Ben Stein

  Motivational   Stars   Dirty  

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• God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

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  Bob Goff

  Dirty   Eye   Dark  

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• I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

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  Tori Amos

  Dirty   Hands   Hard Worker  

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• Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

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  William Butler Yeats

  Music   Dirty   Roots  

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.

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  Jewel

  Girl   Dirty   Hands  

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• Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

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  Joseph Parker

  Dirty   Communication   Hands  

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• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational   Faith   Hope  

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

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  Fanny Kemble

  Dirty   Thinking   Hands  

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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