Quotes about Holding Back

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. Votes: 7

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. Votes: 6

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. Votes: 6

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something. Votes: 4

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back. Votes: 4

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Votes: 4

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody. Votes: 4

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling. Votes: 4

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Votes: 4

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on. Votes: 4

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Votes: 4

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present. Votes: 4

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small. Votes: 4

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it. Votes: 4

Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential. Votes: 3

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back. Votes: 3

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture. Votes: 3

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit. Votes: 3

I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal! Votes: 3

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. Votes: 3

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too. Votes: 3

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. Votes: 3

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact that we are destined with these opportunities. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[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! Votes: 3

Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again. Votes: 3

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback. Votes: 3

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could. Votes: 3

Holding back is so close to stealing. Votes: 2

The only thing holding us back is ourselves. Votes: 2

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all. Votes: 2

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back. Votes: 2

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back. Votes: 2

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up. Votes: 2

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back. Votes: 2

I think 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. Votes: 2

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back Votes: 0

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Votes: 0

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands Votes: 0

My potential is limitless, but the day is holding me back. Votes: 0

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking. Votes: 0

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back. Votes: 0

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back Votes: 0

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity Votes: 0

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back. Votes: 0

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back? Votes: 0

Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams. Votes: 0

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back. Votes: 0

If you say you can't, you won't!The only thing holding you back from success is yourself. Votes: 0

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises. Votes: 0

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. Votes: 0

If you want to be great, do it. There's nothing holding you back. It's all in your control. Votes: 0

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. Votes: 0

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. Votes: 0

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. Votes: 0

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. Votes: 0

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. Votes: 0

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere. Votes: 0

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked. Votes: 0

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back Votes: 0

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end. Votes: 0

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough Votes: 0

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. Votes: 0

For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back. Votes: 0

The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back. Votes: 0

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. Votes: 0

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back. Votes: 0

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job. Votes: 0

She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together. Votes: 0