Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

204. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

206. “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

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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208. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

210. “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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211. “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

212. “Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Rumi

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

— Barack Obama

216. “Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

217. “The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.”

— Tom Waits

218. “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

219. “The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.”

— Rumi

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

— Adele

221. “Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

— James Joyce

222. “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

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223. “I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.”

— Bruce Lee

224. “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

225. “You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.”

— Voltaire

226. “Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know – because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

227. “If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”

— Confucius

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228. “A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.”

— Walt Whitman

229. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”

— Jack Kerouac

230. “For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”

— Khalil Gibran

231. “Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”

— Herman Melville

232. “As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

233. “I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?”

— Walt Whitman

234. “You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”

— Neil Gaiman

235. “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

— John Berger

236. “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

— Chinua Achebe

237. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”

— Denis Waitley

238. “A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can’t prove a thing, but there’s something about his eyes and his voice. There’s something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.’”

— Frederick Buechner

239. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.”

— Rumi

240. “I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”

— Charles Bukowski

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241. “Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.”

— Marianne Williamson

242. “For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.”

— Albert Camus

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243. “Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I’ll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.”

— Karl Marx

244. “He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.”

— Umar

245. “The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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246. “On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.”

— Rumi

247. “When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.”

— W. Clement Stone

248. “We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

249. “Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.”

— Rick Warren

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250. “Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”

— Rabindranath Tagore