Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Jim Morrison

53. “God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.”

— Max Lucado

54. “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

55. “If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Bryant McGill

57. “Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.”

— Warren Buffett

58. “Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.”

— J. C. Ryle

59. “Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.”

— Bob Marley

60. “The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.”

— Socrates

61. “We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”

— Karl Barth

62. “One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.”

— Rumi

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

— Maria Montessori

64. “It’s normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you’re using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal – if he’s living a normal life. And if it’s normal, how can it be bad?”

— Marcus Aurelius

65. “Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

66. “Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.”

— Napoleon

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

— Nido R. Qubein

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

69. “Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.”

— Maya Angelou

70. “Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.”

— John F. Kennedy

71. “I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

72. “Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

73. “All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”

— George Orwell

74. “Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.”

— Benjamin Franklin

75. “Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- – that and such hope as I bring.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

76. “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”

— Karl Barth

77. “God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”

— Saint Augustine

78. “Trust yourself in God’s hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. ‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.’”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Malcolm X

80. “His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Lily Tomlin

82. “There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate.”

— Napoleon

83. “The devil finds work for idle hands.”

— Henry David Thoreau

84. “I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars.”

— Johnny Depp

85. “We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

86. “Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

87. “Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

88. “Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.”

— Dorothy Parker

89. “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

— Corrie ten Boom

90. “The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand.”

— Demi Lovato

91. “Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

92. “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”

— Malcolm X

93. “Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.”

— Paulo Coelho

94. “I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.”

— Mother Teresa

95. “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”

— John Wayne

96. “My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn’t have any hands or numbers. He says it’s very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.”

— Steven Wright

97. “To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears – THAT is Christianity!”

— Watchman Nee

98. “Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

99. “God gives where he finds empty hands.”

— Saint Augustine

100. “Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.”

— Yasmin Mogahed