Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!”

— John Wayne

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

— J.D. Salinger

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

— Paul Arden

458. “When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.”

— W. C. Fields

459. “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

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— Rhonda Byrne

463. “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

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

— Margaret Fuller

465. “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

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

— Charles Dickens

467. “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

468. “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

469. “Times change so quickly that if you and I don’t keep up with the times, we’ll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we’ll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.”

— Malcolm X

470. “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

471. “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

472. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

476. “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

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

— Helen Steiner Rice

478. “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

479. “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

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

484. “Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”

— William Butler Yeats

485. “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

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

— Simon Armitage

487. “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

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

— Hank Aaron

489. “My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.”

— Bob Dylan

490. “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

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Richard Harding Davis

493. “At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”

— Albert Camus

494. “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

495. “Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.”

— Alexander Pope

496. “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

497. “Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

498. “If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.”

— Samuel Johnson

499. “Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.”

— Honoré de Balzac

500. “I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

— Suzanne Collins

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