Hanging On Quotes

• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspirational, Hurt, Scared

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• When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Flying, Rockets

  "Disaster in space" by Robin McKie, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2003.

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• Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

  Denise McCluggage

  Change, Sin, Constant

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• Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

  William James

  Motivational, Clever, Procrastination

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

  Lita Ford

  Thinking, Guitar, Singers

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• All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.

  Billy Bragg

  Integrity, Real, Media

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• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  Aaron Allston

  Luck, Way, Fingernails

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  Mac Davis

  Communication, Redneck, People

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• I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fear, Lying, Night

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 21, 2015

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Letting Go, Quitting

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• Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

  John Landy

  Winning, Play, Competition

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• Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Clouds

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• As a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Team, Party, Government

  Carl Hiaasen (2001). “Sick Puppy”, p.94, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Player, Justice

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• Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

  Roger Waters

  Way, Quiet, Desperation

  "Song: 'Time'". 1973.

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• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dirty, Winter, Two

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• So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours
  I may have too much, but I'll take my chances
  Cause God's stopped keeping score
  And you cling to the things they sold you
  Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back
  Cause he has no children to come back for
  It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate
  Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of
  And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
  So maybe we should all be praying for time

  George Michael

  Song, Children, Hate

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• I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.

  Glenn Hughes

  Insanity, Soul, Fascination

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• Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

  Tim Tharp

  Dream, Real, Ocean

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK

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• There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

  Chuck Mangione

  Fall, Together, Way

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• ...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wall, Might, Stories

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• Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Giving Up, People, Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.213, A&C Black

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