Top 100 Have To Keep Going Quotes
#1. But the thing about having kids is: you can't go to pieces; you just have to keep going.
Helen Fielding
#2. In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.
Christopher Gorham
#3. Lastly, 'Hang tough!' Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity. If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.
Dick Winters
#4. I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.
Catherynne M Valente
#5. Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.
Virginia Heffernan
#6. Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.
Calvin Coolidge
#7. Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
A.J. Darkholme
#8. I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it's too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.
Diana Quick
#9. TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
Jonathan Nolan
#10. There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.
Bruce McGill
#11. Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.
Diane Keaton
#12. You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.
Maggie Siff
#13. You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.
Jeff VanderMeer
#14. You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.
Bob Dylan
#15. You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.
Andrew Sullivan
#16. I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
Richard Feynman
#17. Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.
Stella Maeve
#18. I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.
Sara Blakely
#19. After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.
Lennox Lewis
#20. The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or ... basically, sometimes you just have to keep going.
Jojo Moyes
#21. You have to keep going. You have to. If you push through this, you'll show them. You'll show them you didn't deserve this.
Aimee L. Salter
#22. Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer.
Terry Pratchett
#23. Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back & beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
#24. Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?
Charles Dance
#25. When you are at your lowest in life, no matter where you're at, you have to keep on going. You can't quit. You can't let it break you. You have to keep going on because life keeps going on and you have to keep going if you want to be the person you want to be.
La'el Collins
#26. You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.
Joey King
#27. I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back.
Robin Farina
#28. Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.
Brian Froud
#29. Giving up is not an option if you want to succeed. If you really want to be in business, and it's something you can't live without, you just have to keep going. And one day that shot will be given to you.
Kellee Stewart
#30. In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
Betsy Beers
#31. I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.
Echo Bodine
#32. But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
Cheryl Strayed
#33. Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.
Matt Stone
#34. If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.
M. Molly Backes
#36. I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing, so I just have to keep going.
Kevin Sampsell
#37. I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
Mickey Spillane
#38. This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
Sarah Dessen
#39. You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going back for more. That's why cycling is a very competitive sport. You have to have determination and drive to train hard and put forth a good effort.
Robin Farina
#40. You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
Lauren Bacall
#41. I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.
Rebecca Rosenblum
#42. I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#43. And I would never give up. I've done terrible things I regret and terrible things I don't. But I don't need to be fixed. I don't need to be saved. I just have to keep going.
Michelle Hodkin
#44. One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
Andrew Mason
#45. You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
Dan Hawkins
#46. But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
Cecelia Ahern
#47. When you feel like some people will turn their back on you, judge you so much, you just have to keep going and you can keep going with your life. There are so many things that you can touch on really.
La'el Collins
#48. I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies ...
Ernest Rutherford
#49. We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.
Scott Avett
#50. It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.
Paul Auster
#51. Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.
Sarah Dessen
#52. You're still alive, Mags. You might not feel like it. But you have to keep going. -Tanna
Kristina McBride
#53. Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.
J. Hale Turner
#54. Keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.
Keydia Marie
#55. Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.
Tyler Perry
#56. Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.
Strive Masiyiwa
#57. So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing ... And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.
Rupert Grint
#58. You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you go along. As long as you're getting to work and be a part of it - still having fun, learn to just not sweat it so much and keep doing the things you love.
Dianna Agron
#59. It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
Genevieve Bell
#60. We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
#61. I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.
Janel Parrish
#62. The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
Stephen Daldry
#63. Yes or no?"
"It's always yes with you."
"Except when it's no."
"If you have to keep asking because - I'll answer it as many times as you ask. But this is always going to be yes."
"Don't 'always' me."
"Don't ask for the truth if you're just going to dilute it.
Nora Sakavic
#64. We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.
Chris Kirkpatrick
#65. The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it ... Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.
Steve Holliday
#66. Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.
Elliot Perlman
#67. If you have to keep asking - I'll answer it as many times as you ask. But this is always going to be yes."
"Don't 'always' me.
Nora Sakavic
#68. Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
Michelle Phan
#69. I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
Haruki Murakami
#70. I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.
I'm willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I'm willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.
Emma Watson
#71. What if he really has given up? What am I supposed to do ten?
Keep trying until you have no more chances left. And even then keep going.
Aimee Carter
#72. So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at.
Eric Fellner
#73. I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me ... I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other ... even if we aren't together.
Richelle Mead
#74. Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.
Cheryl Strayed
#75. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#76. The only question is whether you're going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you're going to do it tomorrow,
you'll never do it. You have to get on it today.
Warren Buffett
#77. I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.
Mark Billingham
#78. I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.
Corey Taylor
#79. Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?
Surya Das
#80. I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.
Ron White
#81. Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.
Wayne Allyn Root
#82. You keep going to your bad place," she added. "I have one, too. I get trapped there if I stay too long."
"If you go to the bad place again," she said simply, "Tell one of us so we can help you back out.
Alexandra Bracken
#83. Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?
Elizabeth Berg
#84. Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.
Myles Munroe
#85. The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.
Howard Rheingold
#86. We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.
Conn Smythe
#87. Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
Joe Biden
#88. I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.
Lawrence Block
#89. I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.
Neil Patrick Harris
#90. I have my work and my house, and now I have you here too. If I can keep you, I'm set, so I'm going to do my damnedest to make that happen because I'm a good person and I deserve you.
Mary Calmes
#91. I might have been chained, starved, and beaten, yet that monster couldn't totally crush my spirit. Over and over I chose to get back up and keep going.
Michelle Knight
#92. In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
#93. In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
Frederick Douglass
#94. I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
Naomi Campbell
#95. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.
Jason Isbell
#96. Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work."
Beth: "what do you suggest?"
Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying.
Lucy Monroe
#97. I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it's not because of my brushing skills. It's from Crest Whitestrips, and that's the honest truth. I don't believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.
Jill Wagner
#98. The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.
Bill Bryson
#99. You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.
Robert Kirkman
#100. NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing.
Jimmie Johnson
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