Top 100 Quotes About Holding You Back
#1. If you want to be great, do it. There's nothing holding you back. It's all in your control.
Pete Carroll
#2. Start announcing freedom from anything that's holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.
Joel Osteen
#3. To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and even after she's gone she'll still weigh you down. To all the women: stay away from us men. We don't know anything about you, despite what we try to convince you of.
Dave Matthes
#4. It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.
David Levithan
#5. You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.
Jay Kristoff
#6. The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!
Andy Albright
#7. A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.
Fred Alan Wolf
#9. Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back
Zoe Sugg
#10. God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.
Dana Arcuri
#11. You owe it to yourself to get rid of anything that is destroying & holding you back ferom progress. If it's not helping you grow...then let it go!
Timothy Pina
#12. Having grown up in that house, there are certain lies you learned in childhood about who you believe you are, and they may be holding you back from reaching your full potential and experiencing the happiness that was meant for you.
Brian F. Martin
#13. Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
Russell Simmons
#14. Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.
Mike Birbiglia
#16. It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.
Travis Bradberry
#17. The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.
Bob Proctor
#18. If you say you can't, you won't!
The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.
Jody Provost
#19. It's easy to lock your heart with hatred. But only when it's free will you be able to move forward without pain anchoring you to a past that's holding you back.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. Your fear is holding you back from becoming who you're really meant to be.
Erica Cope
#21. Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.
Holly Lynn Payne
#22. We live in a world where our dreams are blocked by those invisible fences we carry in our mind. The only way you can succeed is to get rid of those invisible fences that are holding you back from achieving your dreams.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#23. Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
Gina Greenlee
#24. Abandon anything in your life and habits that might be holding you back.
Sophia Amoruso
#25. Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.
Ralph Marston
#26. Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.
Brenda Song
#27. If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.
Gaelen Foley
#28. I'm holding you back from achieving things in your life by forcing you to sit here and watch this.
Dan Howell
#29. Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.
Jim Rohn
#30. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.
Emily March
#31. When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.
Jeff Atwood
#32. The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.
Tony Robbins
#33. Sometimes you think someone is holding your hand when really they're holding you back.
Rachael Allen
#34. Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
Oprah Winfrey
#35. No matter what you feel is holding you back in life, you can attempt anything.
Repeat that motivational cup sentence until it gets in your gut and doesn't sound like something stupid on a Hallmark card, because it is the basis for anything that will make you happy in this world.
Felicia Day
#36. Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.
Joel Osteen
#37. Free yourself from the limitations you placed upon yourself. There is no-thing holding you back.
Steve Maraboli
#38. If you can see it, then I can do it. If you have a vision for it, then I can make a way. I can open up new doors. I can bring the right people. I can give you the finances. I can break the chains holding you back.
Joel Osteen
#39. You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? - Clement Stone
Joseph Grenny
#40. No matter how confident you are in your own abilities, you can't build and run a business alone. You need your army pulling you ahead, rather than holding you back.
Martin Zwilling
#41. Take bigger leaps. Yes, quit your job if it's holding you back. Put yourself in a position where failure can't be an option. In order to do that, you have to have something that truly moves and motivates you.
Benjamin P. Hardy
#42. Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone
#43. If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
Seth Godin
#44. Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
Cam Newton
#45. The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
Steve Vai
#46. Here," he said,holding out a dark mink coat. "Thought you might be cold."
"Where did you-"
"I yoinked it off a broad coming home from the market back there.Don't worry,she had enough natural padding already."
"Bill!"
"Hey,you needed it!" He shrugged. "Wear it in good health.
Lauren Kate
#47. 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
#48. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.
James McBride
#49. How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'
Thomas S. Monson
#50. She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.
Rose Wynters
#51. Are you in love with him?'
She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.
'Are you in love with me?'
She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.
Tan Redding
#52. Lord, I need to see You and hear Your voice over and above the storms in my life. Help me to break free of anything that is holding me back from doing
Joyce Meyer
#53. Violet could see the fear in his eyes. "I have to tell you, the idea of losing you scares the hell out of me, Vi. You know that, don't you?" He sighed heavily, still holding on to her as he stared back at her. "Promise me, no more gang fights.
Kimberly Derting
#54. I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
Haruki Murakami
#55. 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
#56. When you say things they don't want to hear, it's like holding a mirror up to them and asking them to look at themselves. It's much easier for them to turn the mirror back on you and claim that your thinking is flawed.
Merry Freer
#57. True friends never mind holding your hair back while you cast up your crumpets.
Lisa Kleypas
#58. Sex is a commitment ... Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands ... and when you give yourself both mentally and physically ... well, you're completely vulnerable.
Judy Blume
#59. 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
#60. Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
Ken Follett
#61. I found out that when someone loves you, like really loves you, no matter what you do, no matter how many stupid mistakes you make or shitty things you say, it sets you free. I feel like I can fly now. Like nothing is holding me back anymore,
Elle Casey
#62. She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don't have to think about things that don't.
Ally Condie
#63. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!
Kate Winslet
#64. You never lose by loving, only by holding back"
Faith Mortimer
Faith Mortimer
#65. How ... how are you doing, Jace?'
Holding on. Just barely. Charlie?'
Charlie's tone is almost conversational. 'Kind of getting the urge to kill both of you. Think I'm gonna head back.'
Sure, okay, no problem.'
Yeah, yeah, good idea. You do that.
D.D. Barant
#66. 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
#67. Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden
#68. I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
Rosamund Lupton
#69. Telling you how I know ... what I know ... it could make things worse than they already are ... for all of us
Dennis Sharpe
#70. Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.
Yvonne Pierre
#71. I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.
Jonathan Levine
#72. A do-over," he softly replied, rocking them back and forth. He nibbled on her lip, his free hand gripping her waist. "This is where we argued yesterday. I want a do-over so when you think of this road, this is what you'll remember. Me holding you ... you staring into my eyes ... and us kissing.
Gail McHugh
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him ... This is our present posture ... This suggestions I make ... would ... conserve American lives for American ends.
Murray Rothbard
#79. Tell me I'm crazy for thinking you're holding back from me as much as I'm hiding you.
Penelope Douglas
#81. Why are you here?" I reached back behind my head and grabbed his wrists, stilling him. "Ben?"
"Because apparently I'm shit at staying away from you."
"Then I guess we have a problem." Our fingers meshed, holding on tight.
"That's putting it fucking mildly.
Kylie Scott
#82. 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
#83. If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
David Deida
#84. Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Scratch marks on the back, sore muscles and bruised hip bones won't get you into a woman's heart or mind ... Gentle whispers and holding her hand will.
Alice Walsh
#86. 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
#87. Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.
Miya Yamanouchi
#88. 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
#89. She talks like you. It's not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who's only holding Cinderella back."
"That's my girl.
Emma Chase
#90. How would you react if I dug my hand into your hair, dislodging those carefully placed pins, then tugged hard, forcing your head back and holding you tight for my kiss?
Sierra Cartwright
#91. 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
#92. clasped tighter to him. I didn't even care. Mason was there. He was in my arms. He was holding me. My Christmas was complete. I tipped my head back, meeting his eyes and I whispered, a small tear appearing at my eye, "Thank you for
Tijan
#93. 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
#94. She pulled her arm free from his grasp and stood back, her arms crossed. "So, what then? You're holding me hostage? Are you even really a sheriff?"
"I am," he said, highly amused at her attempt at bravado. "You wanna see my badge?
Roxanne Snopek
#95. Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.
Rebecca Murphy
#96. Do you know what it means to be emphatic? I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife at your back, when you are trying to be brave, you are able, still, to think for a moment of the person who is holding the knife.
Kate DiCamillo
#97. The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
John Cusack
#98. What are you holding out for? A girl who loves you for you?" I fired back, wiping the shock from my face.
"God, no. Nothing as far-fetched as that." His head shook. "I'm waiting for a girl who wants me for my body. You know, something deep and genuine like that.
Nicole Williams
#99. 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
#100. I've always wanted you. It's just took me awhile to tell the shit holding me back to fuck off
Emily Snow
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