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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hold fast to youth and beauty.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Youth, Economy

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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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• Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.

  F. F. Bosworth

  World, Tenacity, Confession

  F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.159, Chosen Books

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• Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moving, Past

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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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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• 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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• If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

  Julian Barnes

  Men, Desire, Want

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• No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Fighting, Opportunity, Difficult Situations

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• What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and develop daily habits of righteous living.

  Mary N. Cook

  Righteous Living, Iron, Helping

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• Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Three, Generations

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• There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Men, Slavery

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• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

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