--- title: "9 Holding Good Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Holding Good quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Holding Good sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/robert-louis-stevenson-289_cards_life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-car_618909.jpg" --- > [Life is not a matter of holding good cards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-cards/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/robert-louis-stevenson-289_cards_life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-car_618909.jpg) > [Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. --Josh Billings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-billings/life-consists-not-in-holding-good-cards-but-in-playing-those-you-hold/) [Josh Billings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-billings/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/josh-billings-777_football_life-consists-not-in-holding-good-cards_652524.png) > [Life doesn't consist in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.. You just gotta live and learn..](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-kolhoff/life-doesn-t-consist-in-holding-good-cards-but-in-playing-those-you/) [Carson Kolhoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-kolhoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/carson-kolhoff-26938_busy-life_life-doesn-t-consist-in-holding-good-car_1049759.jpg) > [Life's about holding onto the good memories and not letting the bad ones define you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paige-kadau/life-s-about-holding-onto-the-good-memories-and-not-letting-the-bad/) [Paige Kadau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paige-kadau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a6/paige-kadau-90748_good-memories_life-s-about-holding-onto-the-good-memor_515897.jpg) > [Holding on is good, but sometimes when you surely know that your sentiments are of no value for others... you should move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/senora-roy/holding-on-is-good-but-sometimes-when-you-surely-know-that-your/) [Senora Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/senora-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/senora-roy-422_healing_holding-on-is-good-but-sometimes-when-yo_2576425.jpg) > [“The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-breel/the-thing-about-people-though-i-think-is-that-our-hearts-tend-to-do-a/) [Kevin Breel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-breel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/kevin-breel-85598_emotions_the-thing-about-people-though-i-think-is_2241871.jpg) > [I try to cover myself, to have another movie under way before the last one comes out. I've been able to just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-katt/i-try-to-cover-myself-to-have-another-movie-under-way-before-the-last/) [William Katt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-katt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/william-katt-29286_able_i-try-to-cover-myself-to-have-another-mo_698759.jpg) > [“Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God,” Herbert McCabe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-a-heim/idolatry-is-not-holding-on-to-the-wrong-things-it-is-holding-on-to/) [Joseph A. Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-a-heim/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/448/joseph-a-heim-250335_good-thing_idolatry-is-not-holding-on-to-the-wrong_204318.jpg) > [Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/folk-in-those-stories-had-lots-of-chances-of-turning-back-only-they/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/anonymous-1_chance_folk-in-those-stories-had-lots-of-chance_902621.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/holding-good/#itemlist", "name": "Holding Good Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life is not a matter of holding good cards", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-cards/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/robert-louis-stevenson-289_cards_life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-car_618909.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/robert-louis-stevenson-289_cards_life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-car_618909.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/robert-louis-stevenson-289_cards_life-is-not-a-matter-of-holding-good-car_618909.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life is not a matter of holding good cards” — Robert Louis Stevenson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. --Josh Billings", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Josh Billings" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-billings/life-consists-not-in-holding-good-cards-but-in-playing-those-you-hold/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/josh-billings-777_football_life-consists-not-in-holding-good-cards_652524.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/josh-billings-777_football_life-consists-not-in-holding-good-cards_652524.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/josh-billings-777_football_life-consists-not-in-holding-good-cards_652524.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. --Josh Billings” — Josh Billings", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life doesn't consist in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.. 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