удерживаться
(від чогось) desist, forbear, refrain
to hold on, to refrain, to restrain oneself, to check oneself, to hold back, to forgo;to abstain (from);
він не міг утриматися від сміху — he couldn't help laughing, he could not refrain from laughing.
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party." Herbert Hoover
"Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." John Paul Jones
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked." Walter Savage Landor