Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.”

— Langston Hughes

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

— Andrea Gibson

253. “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

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

— Harper Lee

255. “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

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

— Bill Gates

257. “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

258. “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

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

— Charles Dickens

260. “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

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— C.G. Jung

263. “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

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

— Frank Herbert

265. “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

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

— Voltaire

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

268. “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

269. “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

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

— Robert Fulghum

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Dwayne Johnson

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

277. “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

278. “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

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

— Chinua Achebe

280. “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

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

— O. A. Battista

282. “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

283. “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

284. “If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.”

— P.T. Barnum

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Richard Siken

287. “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

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Henry David Thoreau

290. “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

291. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Deepak Chopra

294. “I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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295. “For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

— John Milton

296. “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

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

— Rumi

298. “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

299. “A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”

— Chinua Achebe

300. “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”

— Annie Dillard