Top 100 Quotes About Holding Back
#1. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God?
Rick Warren
#2. Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
Louise Erdrich
#3. If we do run, you'll need four legs to keep up with me today, Edwards. Oh that's right, you've been holding back because you're English, and it's not sporting to run down a girl. Well, this girl's been kicking your butt.
April White
#4. I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
Graham Kerr
#5. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. He remained where he was, looking unsure of what to do. His eyes were dark pools of emotion, giving me the impression he was holding back tears. It made my heart ache for him.
Marita A. Hansen
#7. Every time we are willing to let the story line go, and every time we are willing to let go at the end of the out-breath, that's fundamentally renunciation: learning how to let go of holding on and holding back.
Pema Chodron
#8. I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
Ian McEwan
#10. Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
S.D. Gordon
#11. Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes - " "Character," she said. "Loads of it.
Joey W. Hill
#12. If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Janis Joplin
#13. Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.
Dane Reynolds
#14. You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
#15. For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media.
On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.
Loren Weisman
#16. A life lived well embraces death by feeling open, from heart to all, in every moment. Wide open, you can offer without holding back, you can receive without pushing away.
David Deida
#17. Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
Don Tapscott
#18. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!
Kate Winslet
#19. The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.
Gabe Newell
#20. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#21. You never lose by loving, only by holding back"
Faith Mortimer
Faith Mortimer
#22. Holding back is not the solution to the irresolvable problem, but is brief and temporary medicine to unsolvable problem.
Nadair Desmar
#23. If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.
Sandra Bernhard
#24. Caroline, I love the shit out of you. So calm down and just tell me what you need. No more holding back. And then I'll tell you what I need, and we'll figure out how to work it out.
Alice Clayton
#25. I've known your real name since we were in fifth grade. I've been holding back the information for a potential blackmail opportunity.
Liliana Hart
#26. He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.
Neal A. Maxwell
#27. I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
Shania Twain
#28. We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.
Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.
Bill Jensen
#29. She hadn't pulled her punches, and he certainly wasn't holding back for fear of hurting her feelings. He was the first person she'd come across in a long time who didn't dance around her for fear of saying something that would hurt her.
Katee Robert
#31. Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#32. When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.
John De Ruiter
#33. Feelings about money
saving and spending, holding back and letting go
start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
Fred Rogers
#34. I was struck by how easy this was, how comfortable it was. There was no onion to peel here; Clark was an open book. Easy to read, easy to predict, he'd tell me anything I asked him. No holding back, no games, no bullshit.
Alice Clayton
#35. No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody.
Rumi
#36. You can have my time, and you can have my attention," he said, words slow and deliberate. "Sweetheart, you can have whatever the fuck you want, I promise. Whatever you need. No more holding back, no more fear. And if you still feel you have to get on that plane tonight, then we're doing it together.
Kylie Scott
#37. I wanted to hold you down and - and fuck you. Without holding back. I wanted to push your legs wide open and fuck you while your nails made my back bleed.
Anonymous
#38. When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#39. You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided.
Franz Kafka
#40. I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.
Florence Welch
#41. The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T.E. Lawrence
#42. Tell me I'm crazy for thinking you're holding back from me as much as I'm hiding you.
Penelope Douglas
#44. When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
Clay Aiken
#45. In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.
Jean Hersey
#46. I am begging you." My arm lowered and tugged as he fell to his knees. "I'm begging you, Abby. Don't do this."
"Let me go, Travis."
Travis was on his knees, palms flat on the pavement.
The sight of him on the ground made the tears I'd been holding back rush down my face.
Jamie McGuire
#47. At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
May Sarton
#48. If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
David Deida
#49. People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
Garth Brooks
#50. I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.
Rib Hillis
#51. My first instinct was to make an excuse or to get bashful or to change the subject...but then I realized I was in good company. I could be honest, and this guy was the one who seemed to be holding back. "Actually, yeah, that was kind of amazing.
Tyler Oakley
#52. The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
Napoleon Hill
#53. Well, it's like you're saving your energy for something. Holding back. But it doesn't make any sense. Life is one-way, and there is no return trip. What are you waiting for?
Penelope Douglas
#54. If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya' and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
Al-Ghazali
#55. Are you afraid I'm going to kick your ass? Because you seem to be holding back," I said. Ethan's lip curled. "That's not an answer," I said, "but it is a pretty good Elvis impersonation." I gestured him forward with a crooked finger.
Chloe Neill
#56. I need her. I need to feel her lips against mine. Taste her lip gloss. Know what it feels like to have her this close without holding back. I need her to need me too.
Cassie Mae
#57. For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.
Evangeline Lilly
#58. Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.
George Balanchine
#59. I don't say sweet things and make love and all that bullshit. I like sex hard and rough, no holding back.
Joanna Wylde
#60. Holding back is so close to stealing.
Neil Young
#61. I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.
Karl Pilkington
#62. It was about you... what I wrote. It was all about you." His bottom lip began to quiver.
"I know," I said, my voice shaky. I started to cry then. There was no holding back. "I loved it, every word. It was so beautiful.
Renee Carlino
#63. All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
Elizabeth George Speare
#64. I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back.
Brandon Stanton
#65. Stop holding back those desires you've been too ashamed to admit.
Auliq Ice
#66. I love you, Caitlin.
I leaned in and kissed him, holding back the tears in the realization that he was able to put into words what I was willing to lose my life over.
Anna Lazaridis
#67. Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
Earl Browder
#68. The figure is not lifting the wands, he is holding them down. The difficulty consists in holding back what is, by nature, meant to fly.
Isabel Radow Kliegman
#69. The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself.
Deborah Sandella
#70. It had been many months since I'd shed tears for Tomaso, but grief is like that. It's not a continuous process; it comes in waves. You can keep it at bay for a time, like a dam holding back a lake, but them something triggers an explosion inside of you, shattering the wall and letting loose a flood.
Paul Adam
#71. I wonder, though ... what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.
Jenny Han
#72. I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.
Gisele Bundchen
#73. Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Dionne Warwick
#74. I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
Al Pacino
#75. What did I expect to happen tomorrow? Did I want things to go further with Callahan? Or was I holding back because I still harbored feelings for Fin?
Brenda Pandos
#76. Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from ... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
Seth Godin
#77. I remembered a scripture they read us from the Bible about God not putting more on us than we could bear. I was beginning to wonder if that was just for those people who went to church every Sunday and prayed before they went to bed at night. Because he wasn't holding back any punches with me.
Abbi Glines
#78. Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
Rachel Cusk
#79. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*
Daniel H. Pink
#80. Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.
James W. Pennebaker
#81. No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.
Max More
#82. We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.
Rumi
#83. They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed armies, congresses, religions; plotted rebellions, fomented treasons, practiced heresies.
Joe Hill
#84. To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy's holding back, or the amazing American people.
Megan Smith
#85. The personal power of being confident and clear about our actions and saying what we know without holding back is described in the texts as 'the lions roar.
Sharon Salzberg
#86. She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.
James Dashner
#88. My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.
Penelope Douglas
#89. Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.
Christofer Drew
#90. [I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#91. Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
#92. Do you know one reason my parents have stayed married so long?" I asked and Lark shook her head. "They're a team. If one has a problem, they both have a problem. No secrets, no holding back. They face everything together.
Bijou Hunter
#93. To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.
Philip Yancey
#94. I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.
Jane Green
#95. Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.
Laura Hendrie
#96. I'm not holding back. We've waited long enough. You know your safeword., he continued whispering.
Yes. So if you hear me yelling 'shark' you know to stop whatever the hell you're doing to me, she said and couldn't help but giggle.
Crow Gray
#97. The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
Francis Chan
#98. Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.
Lisa Kleypas
#99. We have an assumption here in America that the kind thing to do is to be "friendly," which means being extroverted, even intrusive. The Japanese assume the opposite: being kind means holding back.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#100. There's no holding back now, Lex. Let go. Everything you want I'm going to give you.
Christine Zolendz
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