Definition of Maintain

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Maintain

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

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Maintain Quotations

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Maintain Translations

maintain in Afrikaans is bewaar, argumenteer
maintain in Danish is beholde
maintain in Dutch is vertogen, betogen, argumenteren
maintain in French is conserver, maintiennent, maintiens, maintenons
maintain in Italian is fiancheggiare, mantenere, ottengo
maintain in Latin is conservo, alo (alui altum), retineo, teneo
maintain in Portuguese is mantenha
maintain in Spanish is apoyar, conservar

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