Top 100 Keep Working Quotes
#1. I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
Debra Winger
#2. It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.
John C. Reilly
#3. Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
Kangana Ranaut
#4. If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
Pat Benatar
#5. Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
Aaliyah
#6. I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
Idina Menzel
#7. I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools ... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
Paul Cezanne
#8. We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton
#9. It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.
Chevy Stevens
#10. We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.
Uday Kiran
#11. After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
Marsha Norman
#12. I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
Joseph Bologna
#13. It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.
Martha Wainwright
#14. My stand has always been clear that I am from Gujarat and will keep working for the state.
Narendra Modi
#15. Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
George Benson
#16. It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
Caroline Kennedy
#18. I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.
Dwight Howard
#19. I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
Ben Mendelsohn
#20. Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.
Patrick Williams
#21. It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.
Demi Lovato
#22. Don't listen to the lies of darkness calling you a failure and that you won't succeed. If you keep working forward in life and believe you'll succeed ... you will!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#23. I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.
Jeremy Luke
#24. Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.
Vin Scully
#25. You know, things come up and we have those conversations. I feel that they're all in a kind of similar state, which is that we all keep working on them, in house, until we feel like it's ready and then it goes from being something that were working on to ready very quickly.
Bryan Burk
#26. One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
Enzo Ferrari
#27. I feel very, very fortunate to have the success that I've had. I want to keep working and keep moving forward. Acting is my dream job. I love it so much.
Tracy Spiridakos
#28. So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.
Julia Stiles
#29. I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.
Damian Lillard
#30. I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.
Ani DiFranco
#31. I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
Hank Azaria
#32. I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.
Spike Lee
#33. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
Andrew Luck
#34. The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#35. I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.
Sunny Deol
#36. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#37. If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.
William Mapother
#38. To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.
Mark Victor Hansen
#39. I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
David R. Ellis
#40. Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.
Piers Anthony
#41. As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.
Albert Shanker
#42. You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab.
"Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
Rachel Caine
#43. At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.
Sergio Garcia
#44. When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#45. In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords
#46. I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
Rufus Wainwright
#47. I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.
Aubrey Plaza
#48. As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.
Guy Davenport
#49. I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
Christopher Egan
#50. At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
Dan Scanlon
#51. Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me ...
Jules Olitski
#52. What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.
Carrie Vaughn
#53. If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.
Moby
#54. He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over the girl like the deadfall to a trap, ready to drop and crush.
Charles Frazier
#55. I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.
Ace Hood
#56. Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.
Donnie Yen
#57. Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!
Hiromi
#58. I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
Quentin Bryce
#59. I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.
Derek Jeter
#60. I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
Ellen Goodman
#61. It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.
John Wooden
#62. Habits are learned. You can cultivate good habits to replace old ones. Keep working on these habits until they become second nature to you.
Amanda Hopkins
#63. Keep working on you. Remind yourself that it's your emotions and experiences and expectations that are causing your outbursts, not your little one's behavior.
L.R. Knost
#64. I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
Rosemary Clooney
#65. My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.
Johannes Heesters
#66. I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
Shane Carruth
#67. I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.
Short Dawg
#68. I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.
Nina Jacobson
#69. Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.
David Eddings
#70. Even if we're far apart, let's have hope and keep working hard.
Yoochun
#72. I am excited to be on set. I love what I do. As long as I have that feeling, then I'm gonna stick to it. As long as I'm lucky enough to get projects and keep working, I will always be grateful for it.
Michelle Trachtenberg
#73. History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.
John McAfee
#74. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!
Michael Fassbender
#75. You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
Viggo Mortensen
#76. I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager
#77. You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.
Lisa Kudrow
#78. If you keep working that hot little tongue against mine, I'll have no choice but to fuck you.
Tessa Bailey
#79. I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.
Wiz Khalifa
#80. I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
Les Paul
#81. I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.
Kim Clijsters
#82. When you make music you have to listen to people's opinions and keep working on your music. A lot of people will try to get you down because they don't realize how much you love it or maybe they are just jealous ... Sure it will never be perfect, but never give up and work until you'll be satisfied!
Marilou
#83. One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?
Geraldo Rivera
#84. I've got to keep working hard and doing what I'm doing.
Hanley Ramirez
#85. I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.
Taissa Farmiga
#86. I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.
Jennifer Lawrence
#88. Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to know that I'm still strong. I want to walk them both down the aisle. And I still plan to. I hope to. I don't know. That's what cancer robs you of. Cancer robs you of the ability to look past today.
Stuart Scott
#90. One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
Gail Collins
#91. A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.
Liane Moriarty
#92. Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
Naomi Watts
#93. There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#94. My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
Colin Mochrie
#95. I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.
Carly Patterson
#96. A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
Nora Roberts
#97. Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.
George W. Bush
#98. I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
Taylor Kitsch
#99. I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#100. I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
Chris Tucker
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