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She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions. — James Dashner

I've known your real name since we were in fifth grade. I've been holding back the information for a potential blackmail opportunity. — Liliana Hart

I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice. — Jane Green

Your fear is holding you back from becoming who you're really meant to be. — Erica Cope

I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal! — Kate Winslet

Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough. — Debasish Mridha

The only thing holding people back from starting a relationship is failure to overcome hesitation. — Andrew King

I'm holding you back from achieving things in your life by forcing you to sit here and watch this. — Dan Howell

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit. — Sandra Bernhard

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine. — Shannon L. Alder

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. — Kim Harrison

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back. — Ken Follett

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere. — Barbara Corcoran

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

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back — Zoe Sugg

Holding back is so close to stealing. — Neil Young

Holding back is not the solution to the irresolvable problem, but is brief and temporary medicine to unsolvable problem. — Nadair Desmar

Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows. — Shannon L. Alder

What is it in methat is holding me back? — Brian Tracy

You have to let go of what is holding you back. — Celso Cukierkorn

Holding you
Watching night turn to day
Turn to night
And back to day again
Loving you
Loving us
Loving — Ron Bishop

Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand. — Rosamund Lupton

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

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling. — Dane Reynolds

Stop holding back those desires you've been too ashamed to admit. — Auliq Ice

When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back. — Jeff Atwood

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. — Haruki Murakami

My potential is limitless, but the day is holding me back. — Alex Gaskarth

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level. — Tony Robbins

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back. — Ralph Marston

The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don't want. — Abraham Hicks

He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back. — Neal A. Maxwell

So I just sat there and let her think I was who she wanted me to be. She went back to sleep holding my hand. — Gillibran Brown

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 — Mario Andretti

People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back? — W. Clement Stone

You never lose by loving, only by holding back"

Faith Mortimer — Faith Mortimer

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back. — Joel Osteen

I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely. — Charlaine Harris

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

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. — James Joyce

Telling you how I know ... what I know ... it could make things worse than they already are ... for all of us — Dennis Sharpe

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.
Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks. — Bill Jensen

Amadeus reached up with both hands, holding her face so that his fingers rested on the back of her neck. — Grey Liliy

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

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. — Publilius Syrus

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself. — Rebecca Murphy

I watched him walk back to the cafe holding his paper. I rather liked him and evidently she led him quite a life. — Ernest Hemingway,

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. — Barbara De Angelis

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up. — Damien Rice

Ares's power was causing my anger. He'd love it if I attacked. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction. — Rick Riordan

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises. — Francis Chan

Holding on to grudges holds you back from achieving success. — Debasish Mridha

I can't decide if he's holding me back or holding me up. — Rick Yancey

There is no time for holding back. — A.D. Posey

She wished she had not shrunk back when he reached out to her. At this moment his strong arms could be holding, warming, comforting her. — Melanie Dickerson

She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself. — Rose Wynters

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

The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up. — Sara Shandler

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

Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. — Gina Greenlee

The only thing holding us back is ourselves. — Brad Henry

He is not holding any of His blessings back from you because of something you have done wrong. — Al Jennings

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back. — Augusten Burroughs

I'm tired of holding onto the past, tired of my memories taking me back there, and I know you are too. — T.A. Anderson

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all. — Samuel Larsen

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back. — Eugene Ormandy

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back. — Publilius Syrus

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too. — Jean Hersey

222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. — Max F. Muller

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

I don't say sweet things and make love and all that bullshit. I like sex hard and rough, no holding back. — Joanna Wylde

True friends never mind holding your hair back while you cast up your crumpets. — Lisa Kleypas

Abandon anything in your life and habits that might be holding you back. — Sophia Amoruso

Free yourself from the limitations you placed upon yourself. There is no-thing holding you back. — Steve Maraboli

When she loves, she loves with her whole heart, giving herself completely, holding nothing back. — Faith Sullivan

I wonder, though ... what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back. — Jenny Han

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night. — Ruth Reichl

I've always wanted you. It's just took me awhile to tell the shit holding me back to fuck off — Emily Snow

The figure is not lifting the wands, he is holding them down. The difficulty consists in holding back what is, by nature, meant to fly. — Isabel Radow Kliegman

If you say you can't, you won't!
The only thing holding you back from success is yourself. — Jody Provost

When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe. — Martina Boone

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God. — Philip Yancey

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. — Judith Viorst

But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you. — Julian Barnes

What did I expect to happen tomorrow? Did I want things to go further with Callahan? Or was I holding back because I still harbored feelings for Fin? — Brenda Pandos

You owe it to yourself to get rid of anything that is destroying & holding you back ferom progress. If it's not helping you grow...then let it go! — Timothy Pina

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

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud. — Rainbow Rowell

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. — Brad Goreski

The only thing that is holding us back from repenting is ourselves. There isn't any 'buts' actually. — Norhafsah Hamid

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift. — Daniel Keyes

This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani

I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back. — Brandon Stanton

OFTEN, THE THING HOLDING us back from success is our inability to say no. — Shane Snow

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. — David Deida

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. — Timothy Ferriss

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. — Richard Brautigan

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