Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.”

— Joseph Campbell

152. “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

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

— Hermann Hesse

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

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. “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

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Frederick Buechner

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

182. “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

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

— Rumi

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

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

— Maria Montessori

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

— Marcus Aurelius

192. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Adele

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Oswald Chambers

198. “O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.”

— J. C. Ryle

199. “To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

200. “Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.”

— Melody Beattie