Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “If you can’t lend a hand, then get out of the way.”

— Bob Dylan

252. “For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

253. “Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”

— Harper Lee

254. “Break in the hands of God, He’ll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you’ll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

255. “Those with open hearts always have open hands.”

— Rumi

256. “In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

257. “I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm – two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.”

— Nhat Hanh

258. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

— Voltaire

259. “No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.”

— Frank Herbert

260. “The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”

— Milton Friedman

261. “I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

262. “Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.”

— Langston Hughes

263. “Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”

— Charles Dickens

264. “Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

265. “I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.”

— Dwayne Johnson

266. “You get what you give, but also what you’re willing to take. The night before, I’d offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.”

— Sarah Dessen

267. “When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.”

— C.G. Jung

268. “I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.”

— Lord Byron

269. “How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?”

— Bob Dylan

270. “I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.”

— Tupac Shakur

271. “Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.”

— Robert Fulghum

272. “I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.”

— Langston Hughes

273. “The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God’s gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.””

— John Piper

274. “The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.”

— John Burroughs

275. “To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.”

— Quentin Tarantino

276. “The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”

— Napoleon

277. “True love doesn’t consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.”

— O. A. Battista

278. “If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.”

— Chinua Achebe

279. “Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It’s something you choose to do or you don’t.”

— Mario Andretti

280. “Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!”

— Robert A. Heinlein

281. “To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you’re surprised? Say you like it? Say it’s just what you wanted? Because it’s yours- because we love you.”

— A. A. Milne

282. “He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”

— Richard Siken

283. “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”

— George Washington

284. “Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.”

— Bertrand Russell

285. “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

— Ray Bradbury

286. “A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That’s control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That’s abandon.”

— Carlos Castaneda

287. “Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands.”

— Bob Dylan

288. “Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.”

— Khalil Gibran

289. “When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It’s yours.”

— Melody Beattie

290. “Put yourself in the hands of the universe-then you will have no need for control.”

— Deepak Chopra

291. “Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.”

— Rumi

292. “God’s miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree – all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.”

— Ronald Reagan

293. “Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

294. “Suffering will come, trouble will come – that’s part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.”

— Mother Teresa

295. “We’ll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.”

— Lauren Oliver

296. “We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

297. “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

— Louisa May Alcott

298. “To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”

— Heraclitus

299. “The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.”

— Paulo Coelho

300. “When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...”

— John Keats