Top 1200 Holding Back Quotes & Sayings

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

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

The only person holding you back is you.

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

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Nothing's holding me back. If I'm held back, the only thing holding me back was me.

He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

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

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

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

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

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

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

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

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

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

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

I would never hold my children back from that. I would never want them to resent me for holding them back from their father's wedding.

If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.

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

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?

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.

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.

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

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

Right before I came back to TNA, I had made the decision to just sort of step away from wrestling. Therefore I really walked into TNA holding nothing back and let the chips fall where they fell.

You come to a certain age in life and wonder, 'I am holding back for what?' Why not just say it?

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

Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.

Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

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

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

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

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

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

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

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

I'd love to be in action movies. I've been trying to convince people. I don't think it's anything physical holding me back. I think it's a general vibe thing that's holding me back. I don't project action confidence, maybe.

I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the 'I'll keep holding on' chorus.

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.

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

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

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

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

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

True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.

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

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

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

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.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

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

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

He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.