Top 100 Holding Onto Quotes
#1. He took two steps at a time, but slowly, holding onto the banister, putting his whole body into it, as if the act of climbing a flight of stairs was for him, as it is for many children, a moderately pleasurable end in itself.
J.D. Salinger
#2. Holding onto negativity only hurts you, let it go
L.J. Vanier
#3. God is committed when we are submitted! Surrender whatever you're holding onto!
Evinda Lepins
#4. He's holding onto me, but this time it feels like he's holding onto me because his earth has shifted off its axis, and I'm his core.
Colleen Hoover
#5. Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.
Asher Roth
#6. I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.
Tatiana Maslany
#7. I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.
Lili St. Crow
#8. I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.
Henry Rollins
#9. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.
V.C. Andrews
#10. When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.
Cesar Millan
#11. It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
Stephen King
#12. Holding onto resentment is like slapping yourself in the face and thinking someone else will feel the pain.
Nick Hernandez
#13. What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
Stephen Greenblatt
#14. It had been an expensive lesson. Don't break up with people when they're in your home and holding onto fragile, expensive stuff.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#15. I didn't get anything from holding onto those handles," Rick said. "Mercer talked to me but it didn't help. He doesn't know any more than I do. He's just an old man climbing a hill to his death."
"Isn't that the revelation?"
Rick said, "I have that revelation already.
Philip K. Dick
#16. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
Megan Smith
#17. Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.
Antonia Hall
#18. Faith isn't faith... until it's all you're holding onto.
Kenol Policard
#19. Holding onto Midge's shirt so he isn't carried off in the wind, we
Jon Bounds
#20. When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
Adyashanti
#21. Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.
Cliff Robertson
#22. I'm struck with the realization that I'm holding onto a man who, for now, is holding onto me but he has still not let go of her.
Ella Frank
#23. We can't be afraid to change. You may fell secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know there is a such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#24. I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.
Miranda Hart
#25. Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you've got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
Benjamin Wood
#26. Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.
Soren Kierkegaard
#27. You are blessed today not because God loves you most but, God just want to bless someone through you. so just be careful you might probably be holding onto someones blessings. Remember you are just servant/messenger of God.
Wisdom Kavi
#28. Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
Socrates
#29. Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#30. John Belushi had that aura of someone who doesn't have a lot of time - that's why he was a little frantic about everything. I think Oscar [Acosta] had that too. They were both holding onto the end of the tornado, and somehow I think they knew it just wasn't gonna last.
Corey Seymour
#31. Can you see me? See the man that I am? Accept me, Regin, because I'm holding onto nothing but you.
Kresley Cole
#32. Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.
John Scalzi
#33. People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.
Bruce Lee
#34. Stop holding onto what hurts and start making room for what feels good
Julie Ann Walker
#35. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.
Stephen King
#36. When a woman is full of cockiness, I wonder what makes her so insecure.
When a man is full of ego, I wonder what he's holding onto.
Nikki Rowe
#37. The only thing that you can do is do jobs and see if people respond to that. I'm always holding onto the fact that I don't really know who I am. Hopefully I won't compartmentalize myself because of that, because I'm completely ignorant of the whole.
Robert Pattinson
#38. That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.
Cheryl Strayed
#39. Then he laughed, his typical laugh. Making me wish i had ten more such anectodes stashed away to keep him standing there, holding onto me and laughing.
Gail Godwin
#40. No one could replace her for me, even if all I was holding onto was a memory.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#41. You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
Lori Borgman
#42. Too many people never catch tomorrow as they let go of today. Capture the precious now instead of holding onto the hope of tomorrow.
Eric Samuel Timm
#43. Everything ok?" Charlie's voice came from behind me.
"I already said it was."
"I know, but you're standing there holding onto that barre for dear life. I know I'm good, but I don't think I've ever paralyzed a woman before.
Melanie Harlow
#44. Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.
Rush Limbaugh
#45. We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')
Douglas Kennedy
#46. i am good at holding onto nothing like it's all i have and running away from something like it's the plague. i
K.Y. Robinson
#47. Park was the only person she knew who wore his backpack actually on his shoulders, not slung over one side - and he was always holding onto the straps, like he'd just jumped out of a plane or something.
Rainbow Rowell
#48. What we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto. (p123) Architecture of Happiness
Alain De Botton
#49. It's like we're on a rocket ship that we were just painting, and suddenly it took off and we're holding onto the ship with our fingernails.
Esteban Contreras
#50. When I reached the end, I was sobbing, all the love and rage and anguish I'd been holding onto since that night on the bridge exploding out of me.
Richelle Mead
#51. When displaying the riches of God's love and pleasing him is more important than holding onto worldly things and pleasing yourself, it becomes increasingly natural to respond to conflict graciously, wisely, and with self-control.
Ken Sande
#52. Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?
Chris Dietzel
#53. Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass
#54. Holding onto fear is weakness; holding onto faith is strength.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've spent so long relying on her that it's sort of become a habit. It's time I relied on myself for a bit and took control of my life.
Nicola Sinclair
#56. I wasn't Dex Foray. I was just this emotion that was crumbling to the floor, holding onto the doorway like it was the last thread of my humanity.
Karina Halle
#57. It's good to know the guy who's holding onto your wire is someone you trust and you know he's not going to let you fall.
Jack Reynor
#59. do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you
-you cannot make it stay
Rupi Kaur
#60. You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
Diahann Carroll
#61. What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
Deepak Chopra
#62. You spend so much time hating the fact that April behaves more like a mother than a sister, but you're the one who's holding onto the apron strings every time she tries to cut them.
Nicola Sinclair
#63. Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.
Glenn Haybittle
#64. Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.
Deb Caletti
#65. I'm tired of holding onto the past, tired of my memories taking me back there, and I know you are too.
T.A. Anderson
#66. Me. That's what husbands are for. And for holding onto for comfort. And to make sure that life will be better. That is my wedding vow to you,
Jo Beverley
#67. You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!
Anamika Mishra
#68. Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
Gavin Hood
#69. The power of mankind has always been in overlooking the finality of things and holding onto optimism even when doing so seems foolish.
Chris Dietzel
#70. My aunt used to tell me that trust was like a plate. Once it was broken, it didn't matter how much glue you used to put it back together; it would never be the same. So here I am holding onto the broken fragments of our love - our marriage - trying not to cut myself with them. Some
Mia Asher
#72. Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
B. Alan Wallace
#73. If I ever find a chick like you, I'm holding onto her too." Jake Thompson
Bella Jeanisse
#74. Holding onto the naive belief that travel will open.
Patti Smith
#75. When you become present, your mind is silent. There is no agenda. You are not holding onto anything. You are not seeking anything. You are just here with what is, and it is enough.
Leonard Jacobson
#76. I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.
Ada Limon
#77. I'm not sure how long we sit in Josh's truck, holding hands, surrounded by darkness and unspoken regrets. But it's long enough to know that there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.
Katja Millay
#78. God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide.
Anna White
#79. Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
Nora Roberts
#80. Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls.
Caitlin Moran
#81. People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down.
Charlie Kimball
#82. My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.
Celine Dion
#83. If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.
Robert Forster
#84. Holding onto anger is like carrying a bucket of poison. Every step you walk, it splashes onto yourself and others. When you finally reach the one who deserves it, you have poisoned yourself and many other innocent people.
Dean Henryson
#85. Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.
Lester Levenson
#86. Not. Your. Fault.
I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.
Tammara Webber
#87. You're just holding onto a different edge of the same jagged hole
Kami Garcia
#88. Letting go is easier than holding onto something that isn't real
Steven Aitchison
#89. The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.
Tom DeLonge
#90. Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won't hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.
Priscilla Shirer
#91. You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.
Damian Barr
#92. Hot damn. Cue the violins and happy cartoon bunnies. I was in the middle of a Disney moment. Because this guy was gorgeous. And we were standing so close to each other. If he hadn't been holding onto a barely contained rage directed at yours truly, it could have almost been construed as romantic.
A Meredith Walters
#93. If your pop had dumped me, I wouldn't have moved on either. He was mine, and no other man would do. Holding onto what I loved wouldn't have made me weak. It'd make me strong enough to be alone rather than with a man who gives me less than I need.
Bijou Hunter
#94. I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett
#95. I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
Jim Hodges
#97. I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of it the way you blow a dying fire.
Jardine Libaire
#98. I'm barely holding onto my restraint right now, so if you want our first time together to have anything like romance to it, then just shut it. All right, love?
Jasinda Wilder
#99. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#100. I say to you that suffering is not holding onto you, you are holding onto suffering.
Osho
