Keeps Me Going Quotes

#1. And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are ... capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

Dan Brown

#2. 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

#3. Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?

Don Zimmer

#4. I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

Caprice Bourret

#5. It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

Margaret Atwood

#6. What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.

Elisabeth Shue

#7. Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

Raina Telgemeier

#8. I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.

Margaret Cho

#9. I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

Robert Redford

#10. Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

Jimmy Cliff

#11. I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Matteo Manassero

#12. Who we are might not fit but it can still work."
More tears filled my eyes and I didn't clear the hoarse from my voice when I said, "I hope that keeps going too."
"I get that, Justice. You haven't hidden you been into me from the start. Or, if you tried, you're shit at it.

Kristen Ashley

#13. I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Billy Joel

#14. I honestly believe that my best work is in front, not behind me. I am driven by a deep passion and need to make a difference and leave this world a little better than when I arrived. That's what keeps me going.

Rick Hansen

#15. I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

Julie Burchill

#16. The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

Ingrid Bergman

#17. I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

Karl Lagerfeld

#18. The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

Bob Proctor

#19. Your mom isn't going to let me step foot inside this place. I've seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#20. The constant education is what keeps me interested. That's what absolutely fascinates me about this job. This week, I'm playing a faerie. Last year, I played a soldier. What am I going to be playing in six months? It's amazing! It's a wonderful job.

Robert Kazinsky

#21. I've learned to live with rage. In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

Etta James

#22. I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.

Paul Dano

#23. I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

Ryan Reynolds

#24. I try to leave it in Christ's hands and trust that He knows the situation. He knows the position I'm in. He wouldn't have put me in this position if I couldn't handle it. That's what keeps me going, knowing that He's right there. I can call on Him whenever.

John Salmons

#25. Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

Bei Dao

#26. I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

Ravi Shankar

#27. I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

LeBron James

#28. Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

Steve Martin

#29. When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.

Spencer Boldman

#30. I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.

Scott Adams

#31. I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

Morgan Freeman

#32. False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Rob Payne

#33. Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

Chuck Close

#34. I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

Lydia Lunch

#35. I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

George A Tice

#36. I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Rita Moreno

#37. It's a blessing to have the support that I do. The support from the people. To get all the love from them, is just amazing and it keeps me going day by day.

Lil B

#38. I'm clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I'm hurting now, he'll hurt ten times worse. That's the only thing that keeps me going.

Jenny Han

#39. My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

Big Sean

#40. Stories are a way to connect with others and realize we're not alone in our crazy, mixed-up thoughts. I think what you do is important. It keeps introverted people like me from going insane.

Linda Kage

#41. I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.

Hamilton Leithauser

#42. I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Kevin Hart

#43. What keeps me going is goals.

Muhammad Ali

#44. It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Nicholas Sparks

#45. Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

William Green

#46. Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.

Jim Rash

#47. You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Anish Kapoor

#48. Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

Lester Piggott

#49. I like to pray for things that seem possible. There are so many things that I pray for that seem almost too big even for God. It's rewarding to pray for something that might actually happen. It kind of keeps me going.

Rainbow Rowell

#50. People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

Valerie Bertinelli

#51. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Charles R. Swindoll

#52. There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Bill Frisell

#53. My competition keeps me driven. My family and son and being home in Chicago keeps me humble, and my fans. They're the reason why I'm going hard and making sure everyone knows how to say my name.

Jeremih

#54. He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.

Jack Kerouac

#55. I mean, I kind of feel alphas are the romance equivalent of an impulse buy. It looks great in the shop but then you get home and it's like where am I going to put this thing? It doesn't go with my furnishings and it keeps trying to kiss me punishingly.

Alexis Hall

#56. It's a wonder I'm even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can't believe I haven't killed myself. But there's something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.

Augusten Burroughs

#57. I know I usually come down here to tell you I'm sorry. But I think today I want to tell you that I'm going to be all right. Don't let me be one of the things that keeps you from peace, Mother. I'm all right.

Rainbow Rowell

#58. All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

Lee Krasner

#59. There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

Frank Shorter

#60. I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.

Nicole Scherzinger

#61. For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films ... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

Deepika Padukone

#62. I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Laura Kightlinger

#63. What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.

Emma Roberts

#64. What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Robert Wyatt

#65. My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

Ariel Pink

#66. Somewhere I just want to find someone that's going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.

Pete Wentz

#67. I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

Patricia Schroeder

#68. What keeps me going is my children.

Louis De Bernieres

#69. I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

Courtney Love

#70. I am a creature of habit with my food and snacks. I make sure to get in all three meals and drink my Eboost every morning, and lots of hot tea keeps me going!

Kristen Taekman

#71. There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going.

Steve Jobs

#72. It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

David Lodge

#73. Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

Simon R. Green

#74. Free time keeps me going.

Gus Van Sant

#75. I still believe I'm the best player. That's what keeps me going.

Lisa Leslie

#76. The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

Jon M. Chu

#77. Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul ... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!

Rabindranath Tagore

#78. I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping as many irons in the fire as possible. I'm writing music, trying to write a book (aren't we all?), putting a festival together, speaking ... It keeps life interesting.

Kevin Griffin

#79. In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going,

Etta James

#80. Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

Eric Davis

#81. Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

Martin Scorsese

#82. To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

Albert Gubay

#83. A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy ... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.

Gabi Hollows

#84. I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

Lynsey Addario

#85. I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Ashwin Sanghi

#86. I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

Nigella Lawson

#87. There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

Stephen Malkmus

#88. I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

Arno Hintjens

#89. I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

Karl Malden

#90. Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Gus Van Sant

#91. I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

Carol Alt

#92. There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

Becky G

#93. For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.

Neneh Cherry

#94. I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going.

Victoria Aveyard

#95. I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Conor Oberst

#96. Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you should not call back, or call back and appear like a stalker? "Hi. It's me again. I forgot to tell you that I'm going to kill you. Because I'm the freak who keeps calling and calling."

Jim Gaffigan

#97. My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

Kaley Cuoco

#98. What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Phil Donahue

#99. The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

Leah Busque

#100. I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

Maceo Parker