Holding Back Quotes

95 Holding Back quotes by 76 unique authors

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,… — Franz Kafka
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
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and… — Dionne Warwick
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… — George Balanchine
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with… — Paulette Jiles
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized… — C.S. Lewis
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take… — C.S. Lewis
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. — David Deida
…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it… — Pema Chodron
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a… — Louise Erdrich
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out… — Sarah Dessen
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your… — James Clavell
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He… — Lisa Kleypas
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit.… — Elizabeth George Speare
Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that I got mugged,"… — Jeaniene Frost
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
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… — May Sarton
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may… — Tara Brach
... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want to leave you,”… — Lisa Kleypas
You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the… — Rachel Vincent
Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them… — Charles Bukowski
The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me,… — Melina Marchetta
Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.… — Tara Brach
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. — Ian Mcewan

Who Wrote These Holding Back Quotes

76 authors contributed a total of 95 Holding Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: