Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

153. “I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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154. “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

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

— Frederick Douglass

156. “If you want a lover I’ll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I’ll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I’m your man.”

— Leonard Cohen

157. “Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.”

— Stephen R. Covey

158. “Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!”

— Rudyard Kipling

159. “The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart.”

— Robin S. Sharma

160. “If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, you can find out first hand what it’s like to be me.”

— Gerard Way

161. “My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God’s hands.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

162. “Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin’.”

— Bob Dylan

163. “If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.”

— C. S. Lewis

164. “In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.”

— Howard Thurman

165. “This life is not about me. It’s about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

166. “God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.”

— Joel Osteen

167. “The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

168. “Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.”

— Carlos Castaneda

169. “We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

170. “If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!”

— Nick Vujicic

171. “Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

— Henry David Thoreau

172. “At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

173. “Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

174. “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

— Barack Obama

175. “Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”

— Frederick Buechner

176. “I may not have hands to hold my wife’s hands, but I don’t need hands to hold her heart. That’s what I’m gonna hold.”

— Nick Vujicic

177. “Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

178. “The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.”

— Maria Montessori

179. “The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.”

— John Milton

180. “People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”

— Thomas Sowell

181. “When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts.”

— Albert Schweitzer

182. “All other goods by Fortune’s hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.”

— Alexander Pope

183. “There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.”

— Timothy Keller

184. “If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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185. “When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

186. “There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.”

— D.L. Moody

187. “The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.”

— Margaret Mead

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188. “Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.”

— Marianne Williamson

189. “Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

190. “When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”

— Rumi

191. “God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?”

— Khalil Gibran

192. “Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”

— Alfred Tennyson

193. “We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.”

— Marcus Aurelius

194. “God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.”

— Billy Graham

195. “The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.”

— Booker T. Washington

196. “No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.”

— Barack Obama

197. “The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

198. “I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”

— Douglas Adams

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199. “Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.”

— Michael Jackson

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200. “You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat.”

— Adele