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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

  Marie Lu

  Memories, Left Hanging, Ghost

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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• In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Rights, Order

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fate, Our World, Chance

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes." Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. "Don't tell me," he said. "The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something." Magnus sat up. "What's gotten into you?" Alec stared at him. "Am I the newest thing in this apartment?" "I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He's only two." "I said newest, not youngest," Alec snapped.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Hate, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1845, Simon and Schuster

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• The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mother, Cat, Dust

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

  Paul Bowles

  Fall, Bumps, Way

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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• I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tired, Pieces, Torn

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.123, Penguin

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• If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Bridges, Over You

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• God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

  Rod Parsley

  Easter, God's Plan, Resurrection

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• You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

  O. Henry

  Appreciation, Home, Old Glory

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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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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• She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

  David Levithan

  Long, Realizing, Has Beens

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• I’m so overwhelmed.” – Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails.” – Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Peaceful, Looks, Calm

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