Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.”

— Edmund Burke

403. “Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.”

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

405. “Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more ’gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.”

— John Burroughs

406. “Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”

— Hippocrates

407. “I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

408. “No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.”

— Frederick Douglass

409. “Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”

— Helen Keller

410. “And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.”

— Robert Fulghum

411. “We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”

— Marcel Proust

412. “I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats

413. “But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.”

— John Updike

414. “When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

415. “The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”

— H. G. Wells

416. “How many people have never raised their hand before?”

— Steve Martin

417. “You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

418. “People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.”

— Robin S. Sharma

419. “Good and evil go hand in hand, you can’t separate them...”

— Marilyn Manson

420. “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

421. “As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.”

— Seneca the Younger

422. “That invisible hand of Adam Smith’s seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.”

— George Carlin

423. “For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.”

— Beatrix Potter

424. “Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.”

— Joan Rivers

425. “We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth.”

— Ian McEwan

426. “Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

427. “Even when we think we cannot rise up, there is still hope. And sometimes we just need someone to look us in the eyes, take our hand, and say, ‘you can do it now!’”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

428. “Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

429. “Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.”

— Beth Moore

430. “We don’t really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor’s, and they’re going on vacation that’s slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.”

— Dan Ariely

431. “What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

432. “I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

— Ayn Rand

433. “God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.”

— Khalil Gibran

434. “Christ knows how to minister to others perfectly. When the Savior stretches out His hands, those He touches are uplifted and become greater, stronger, and better people as a result. If we are His hands, should we not do the same?”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

435. “Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?”

— Khalil Gibran

436. “He is still in control. He still has you in the palm of His hand.”

— Joel Osteen

437. “And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!”

— Alfred Tennyson

438. “Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!”

— John Wayne

439. “Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.”

— Coco Chanel

440. “I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”

— J.D. Salinger

441. “May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.”

— Abraham Lincoln

442. “The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.”

— Socrates

443. “As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?”

— Tina Fey

444. “Don’t look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity.”

— Paul Arden

445. “If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power.”

— Carl Sagan

446. “In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.”

— Margaret Fuller

447. “You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

449. “The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

450. “I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.”

— Steve Jobs