Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.”

— Corrie ten Boom

102. “We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Zig Ziglar

104. “Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?”

— Rumi

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105. “I don’t drink anymore, on the other hand I don’t drink any less either.”

— W. C. Fields

106. “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

107. “You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.”

— Harvey MacKay

108. “Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”

— Bill Gates

109. “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

— Thomas Sowell

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110. “To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person’s heart before you ask him for a hand.”

— John C. Maxwell

111. “A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”

— Les Brown

112. “Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Immanuel Kant

114. “You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.”

— Napoleon Hill

115. “When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

116. “If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!”

— Elisabeth Elliot

117. “He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”

— Saint Augustine

118. “The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush’d the tyrant’s head And became Tyrant in his stead.”

— William Blake

119. “Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.”

— Clara Barton

120. “Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It’s more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.”

— Pablo Picasso

121. “What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.”

— Billy Graham

122. “The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.”

— Thomas A. Edison

123. “If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.”

— Katharine Hepburn

124. “The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.”

— George Bernard Shaw

125. “This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.”

— John Quincy Adams

126. “Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you’ve just met the person whose hand you’ll be holding the day you die.”

— Jodi Picoult

127. “You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.”

— Napoleon Hill

128. “To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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129. “This is Christian hope, that the future is in God’s hands.”

— Pope Francis

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

— Clint Eastwood

131. “If you don’t come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you’re not trying hard enough.”

— Mario Andretti

132. “If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.”

— Audrey Hepburn

133. “Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.”

— Watchman Nee

134. “The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”

— Marcus Aurelius

135. “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”

— George R.R. Martin

136. “A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.”

— Pablo Picasso

137. “Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God’s hands, and know no will but His.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

138. “People say you shouldn’t have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that’s a lot of crock. If God didn’t want plastic surgeons, he wouldn’t have given them hands to work with.”

— Dolly Parton

139. “Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.”

— Walt Disney

140. “If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.”

— Chinua Achebe

141. “Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.”

— Napoleon Hill

142. “No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty.”

— Frederick Douglass

143. “Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

144. “When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.”

— Joseph Campbell

145. “Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God’s guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

146. “Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.”

— Hermann Hesse

147. “The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”

— Thomas Jefferson

148. “Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.”

— Oscar de la Renta

149. “God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

150. “The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien