Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Karl Barth

104. “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

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Faith Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Good Friday Quotes

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

— Napoleon

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Also featured in: Self Control Quotes

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

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Johnny Depp

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

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Sports Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes, Gym Quotes, Fight Club Quotes

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

112. “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

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

— Dorothy Parker

114. “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

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

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Hurt Quotes

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

— Malcolm X

117. “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

Also featured in: Respect To Be Respected Quotes, Disrespect Quotes

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Demi Lovato

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Watchman Nee

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— W. C. Fields

127. “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

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Mistake Quotes

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

— Corrie ten Boom

129. “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

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Rumi

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

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

— Harvey MacKay

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

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. “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

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

— Clara Barton

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

— Khalil Gibran

142. “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

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

— Les Brown

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— George Bernard Shaw

150. “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