Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.”

— Tori Amos

352. “We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”

— Leo Buscaglia

353. “We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”

— William Butler Yeats

354. “So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

355. “The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘W-A-T-E-R’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.”

— Helen Keller

356. “On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

— Audrey Hepburn

357. “Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.”

— Fernando Pessoa

358. “Regarding love what can you say? It’s not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It’s the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.”

— Woody Allen

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

— Criss Jami

360. “Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.”

— Sarah Kay

361. “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

362. “The burned hand teaches best.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

366. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

368. “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

369. “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

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

— Walter Scott

371. “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

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

— Annie Dillard

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— George R.R. Martin

375. “Jah shows every man his hand, and Jah has shown me mine.”

— Bob Marley

376. “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

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

— Francis of Assisi

378. “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

379. “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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

382. “Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades – words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Tupac Shakur

385. “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

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

387. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

389. “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

390. “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

391. “Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

392. “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

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

— Tennessee Williams

394. “There’s so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?”

— Bruce Lee

395. “Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

398. “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

399. “A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

400. “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