Hold Fast Quotes

• History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Past, Rushing

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Challenges, Foundation, Answers

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.

  David Wilkerson

  Mean, And Love, World

  David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation Into the Father Heart of God”, p.136, Baker Books

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• Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Bible, Christian, Writing

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• Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Patience, Perseverance, Genius

  "New Cyclopædia of Illustrations". Book by Elon Foster, 1870.

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• Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Ambition, Waking

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.92

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• The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

  Alexander Schindler

  Letting Go, Art, Knows

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• I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Standards, Urges

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• We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Positivity

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• Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

  Dawn Powell

  Love, Beautiful, Mosaics

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• Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Show Respect, Shows

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Hold fast to youth and beauty.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Youth, Economy

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• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

  John Burroughs

  Literature, Accepting, Guides

  John Burroughs (1913). “Writings”

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• So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

  May Sarton

  Joy, World

  May Sarton (2014). “Selected Poems of May Sarton”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.

  Thucydides

  War, Mean, Loss

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• It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

  Matthew Henry

  Heaven, Benefits, Influence

  Matthew Henry, Ezekiel Blomfield (1808). “A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments”, p.360

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• To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

  Meister Eckhart

  Jobs, Giving Up, Two

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

  Confucius

  Learning, Faithful, Way

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

  John Foster Dulles

  Equality, Capacity, Indispensable

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• Regardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Light, Age, Example

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• Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

  John Locke

  Biblical, Trying, All Things

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Integrity, Important, May

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• Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Humility, Hands

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