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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The truth is that our only safety, our only security, our only hope is to hold fast to that which is good. As the mists of darkness gather around us, we are only lost if we choose to let go of the iron rod, which is the word of God.

  David S. Baxter

  Letting Go, Iron, Safety

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.

  John Wesley

  Europe, America, Discipline

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.315

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• Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Law, Giving

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.150, Beard Books

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• Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

  Hanshan

  Years, Mind, Pearls

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• Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Inward, Crowns

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• Hold fast to life and youth.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Life, Inspire, Youth

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