Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “What the hand does the mind remembers.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Learning Quotes

2. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

3. “Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Empowering Quotes

4. “Helping hands are better than Praying Lips.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Powerful Quotes

5. “If you don’t take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”

— Winston Churchill

6. “Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.”

— Winston Churchill

7. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

— Randy Pausch

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Smart Quotes

8. “The future is in your hands, the outcome is up to you.”

— Thomas S. Monson

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Future Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

9. “Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”

— Dan Brown

10. “Life can’t give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Love Yourself Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes

11. “Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.”

— Albert Einstein

12. “Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Humanism Quotes

14. “The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Destiny Quotes, Rights Quotes

15. “If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.”

— Joseph Campbell

16. “Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Reputation Quotes

17. “The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Intention Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Quotes About Acting

18. “Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”

— Aristotle

19. “May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

20. “Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you’ll find it at the end of your arm.”

— Audrey Hepburn

21. “Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”

— Jim Morrison

22. “The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.”

— Bryant McGill

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Caring Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes

23. “The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.”

— Maria Montessori

24. “The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.”

— Nido R. Qubein

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, You Got This Quotes, Path Quotes

25. “Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.”

— Lily Tomlin

26. “Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.”

— Malcolm X

Also featured in: Quotes About Ideas

27. “Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”

— Zig Ziglar

28. “The hand is the visible part of the brain.”

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Clint Eastwood

30. “The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart.”

— Robin S. Sharma

31. “There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.”

— Timothy Keller

32. “The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.”

— Maria Montessori

33. “Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Peace Quotes

34. “The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.”

— Booker T. Washington

35. “To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Book Quotes

36. “When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.”

— Jason Mraz

37. “Those with open hearts always have open hands.”

— Rumi

38. “In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

39. “For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

40. “Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.”

— Langston Hughes

41. “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.”

— William Blake

42. “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

— Louisa May Alcott

43. “To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.”

— Brennan Manning

44. “When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It’s yours.”

— Melody Beattie

45. “It takes 10 hands to score a basket.”

— John Wooden

46. “Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”

— Patti Smith

47. “I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.”

— Tori Amos

48. “He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

— Francis of Assisi

49. “The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

50. “More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself – and that’s about it.”

— Bruce Lee