Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.”

— W. Clement Stone

352. “I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”

— Criss Jami

353. “There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

354. “Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, “How are you?” and no one says How aren’t you?”

— Rumi

355. “The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas’d to the last he crops the flow’ry food, And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood.”

— Alexander Pope

356. “The burned hand teaches best.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

357. “The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.”

— Aeschylus

358. “HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.”

— Princess Diana

359. “I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.”

— Annie Dillard

360. “God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

361. “All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”

— August Wilson

362. “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ.”

— C. S. Lewis

363. “Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.”

— Walter Scott

364. “Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.”

— Bob Marley

365. “Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

366. “Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”

— Stephenie Meyer

367. “Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

368. “He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

— Francis of Assisi

369. “Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.”

— Matthew Arnold

370. “We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that’s impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”

— Kristin Armstrong

371. “No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.”

— Tupac Shakur

372. “That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”

— Henry Ford

373. “When I don’t understand something, I reach up and hold God’s hand. And we walk together in silence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

374. “Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

375. “The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

376. “The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

377. “He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”

— Arundhati Roy

378. “At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

379. “The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.”

— Joseph Campbell

380. “You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.”

— Booker T. Washington

381. “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.”

— Saint Augustine

382. “It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

383. “He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

384. “Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.”

— Tennessee Williams

385. “A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.”

— Carlos Castaneda

386. “You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”

— John Updike

387. “I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.”

— Billy Graham

388. “A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.”

— Ernest Hemingway

389. “The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

390. “High high in the hills, high in a pine tree bed. She’s tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.”

— Ken Kesey

391. “We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

392. “The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

393. “The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.”

— George R.R. Martin

394. “Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.”

— Mother Teresa

395. “Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.”

— Michael Scott

396. “I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn’t had support, I wouldn’t have been able to fulfill my dreams.”

— Lionel Messi

397. “The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.”

— George Washington

398. “Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.”

— Tennessee Williams

399. “I don’t claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”

— Mother Teresa

400. “Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

— Bell Hooks