1.
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
Why are you being parsimonious with yourselves? Why are you being reticent? What are you reserving for - for a future occasion? There is no other opportunity. There is just the present. This moment.
2.
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
3.
No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody.
Rumi
4.
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
5.
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
6.
The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
Francis Chan
7.
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
8.
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
9.
People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
Garth Brooks
10.
Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
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If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.
Sandra Bernhard