Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.”

— Michael Jackson

202. “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

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Rumi

209. “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

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

— Jack Kerouac

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Confucius

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

— Tom Waits

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— James Joyce

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Khalil Gibran

220. “When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.”

— Jason Mraz

221. “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

222. “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

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

— W. Clement Stone

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Rumi

227. “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

228. “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

229. “The finger cut, to save the hand.”

— Khaled Hosseini

230. “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

231. “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.

232. “Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like...”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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

— Umar

234. “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

— Douglas Adams

235. “Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

236. “No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Herman Melville

238. “When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

239. “The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.”

— Saint Augustine

240. “Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!”

— James Joyce

241. “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

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Voltaire

245. “Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don’t you dare let go of my hand!”

— Andrea Gibson

246. “Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”

— D. H. Lawrence

247. “At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

248. “I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hands. There is no harm in the Lord’s hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

249. “Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.”

— T. S. Eliot

250. “With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.”

— Bill Gates