Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 4 of 10

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

— Pope Francis

152. “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

Also featured in: Flower Quotes

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Hermann Hesse

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

Also featured in: Book Quotes

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Walt Disney

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Joseph Campbell

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

189. “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

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

— Frederick Buechner

191. “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

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

— Carlos Castaneda

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

197. “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

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Alexander Pope

200. “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