Top 1200 Holding Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

He bent, lips coming to mine and — 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low growl. 'Never fails.' I turned to Kit. 'How is she?' 'We’re going to take her back to the house now. She’s unconscious again.' 'Then we’ll walk back,' Derek said. 'Give you room in the van to lay her down.' His dad agreed and went back inside. As we walked toward the steps, I looked down at Derek’s hand, holding mine. 'No one’s around,' he said. 'And we can take the back way.' 'Good,' I said, and entwined my fingers with his.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.

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.

Study your thoughts and question them. What am I telling myself that is keeping me stuck or holding me back? What is this pattern of thinking that says I'm less than I am, which is absolute magnificence? It's our thoughts that hold us back.

I want Britain to be that kind of opportunity society where the Government is your friend, working with you, enabling rather than holding you back, intentionally or not.

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

I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

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.

The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

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

We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.

Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.

When I got into the league, guys didn't expect me to be as quick and fast as I was. I think it was myself holding myself back.

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

Community and families are what we're neglecting. This is what's holding us back as people, and instead, we want to look at everything else.

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.

Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on.

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.

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.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.

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.

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

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.

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

Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.

If I've learned anything from TJ, it's that life is a fine balance of holding on, letting go, and never looking back unless it's to admire how far you've come.

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.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

I have the impression that every word is a word too many. I'm constantly holding myself back.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

No one thinks of controlling inflation of a continental-sized country by holding back municipal tariffs. Macroeconomic stability cannot be achieved through microeconomic intervention.

I'd taken 'Om Shanti Om' to Japan and they loved it because they just love the not holding back of emotions.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

The custom of clasping hands is thought to date back thousands of years, as proof of not holding any weapons.

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

I wouldn't ever have believed I would marry so young, but it was love at first sight, so there was no point in holding back for the sake of it.

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.

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.

Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.

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

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

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

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

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.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

What it would have felt like to fall in love and have nothing holding you back from being completely free.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

If we are going to create the future, then we must break down the barriers that are holding us back from our full potential.

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