Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.”

— Terry Pratchett

452. “I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

— André Gide

453. “Christ knows how to minister to others perfectly. When the Savior stretches out His hands, those He touches are uplifted and become greater, stronger, and better people as a result. If we are His hands, should we not do the same?”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

454. “In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

455. “I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

— Ayn Rand

456. “Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.”

— Coco Chanel

457. “Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

— John Ruskin

458. “Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...”

— Orison Swett Marden

459. “Don’t look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity.”

— Paul Arden

460. “About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

461. “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”

— Howard Thurman

462. “He is still in control. He still has you in the palm of His hand.”

— Joel Osteen

463. “May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.”

— Abraham Lincoln

464. “That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.”

— Walt Whitman

465. “Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

466. “The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

467. “As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?”

— Tina Fey

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468. “We’re going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

469. “I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”

— J.D. Salinger

470. “Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

— Louisa May Alcott

471. “Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.”

— Charles Dickens

472. “You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

473. “Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.”

— Horace

474. “I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome.”

— Edith Wharton

475. “I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.”

— Steve Jobs

476. “In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.”

— Margaret Fuller

477. “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter’d by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.”

— John Locke

478. “I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.”

— Ingmar Bergman

479. “If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

— Saint Augustine

480. “Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

481. “In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

482. “God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.”

— Max Lucado

483. “Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing.”

— Henry David Thoreau

484. “Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone’s nose because this is closer to reality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

485. “But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.”

— Herman Melville

486. “An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.”

— Henry Ford

487. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

488. “We can fall, but in the end we fall into God’s hands, and God’s hands are good hands.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

489. “Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.”

— Joan of Arc

490. “The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.”

— Richard Harding Davis

491. “In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”

— Victor Hugo

492. “If the so-called ‘Christianity’ now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer – no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.”

— Malcolm X

493. “Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there’s a certain point beyond which you say, “There are no answers.””

— Ray Bradbury

494. “Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

495. “I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”

— William Blake

496. “The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized.”

— Nelson Mandela

497. “And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”

— Simon Armitage

498. “Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally.”

— Dan Brown

499. “You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.”

— Hank Aaron

500. “Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.”

— John Piper