Holding On Quotes

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

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

Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

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

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

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

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.

The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

When you become present, your mind is silent. There is no agenda. You are not holding onto anything. You are not seeking anything. You are just here with what is, and it is enough.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.