Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Harvey MacKay

104. “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

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

— W. C. Fields

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

— Zig Ziglar

107. “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

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

— Les Brown

109. “You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

— Immanuel Kant

111. “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

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

— Rumi

113. “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

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

— Khalil Gibran

115. “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

116. “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

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

— Thomas A. Edison

118. “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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

120. “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

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

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Clara Barton

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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

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

— Walt Disney

141. “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

142. “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

143. “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

144. “The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

— Benjamin Franklin

145. “I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand?”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Oscar de la Renta

147. “We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one’s back is counterproductive.”

— Marcus Aurelius

148. “Our destiny is largely in our hands.”

— Frederick Douglass

149. “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

150. “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