Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.”

— Billy Graham

402. “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

403. “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

404. “When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.”

— John Adams

405. “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

406. “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

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

— Michael Scott

408. “Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

— Bob Dylan

409. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Nhat Hanh

412. “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

413. “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

414. “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

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. “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

417. “If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”

— Xenophanes

418. “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

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

— Hippocrates

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

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

426. “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

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

— Steve Martin

428. “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

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

— George Carlin

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Marilyn Manson

432. “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

433. “Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Beatrix Potter

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

— Khalil Gibran

436. “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

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

— Ian McEwan

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

— Beth Moore

439. “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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

441. “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

442. “If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.”

— George MacDonald

443. “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

444. “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

445. “In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

446. “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

447. “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

448. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Abraham Lincoln