Me Going Quotes

#1. I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder ... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Tanya Tucker

#2. I'm blessed enough to been in the game for a while and still have my beautiful fans and still have the respect. That's something that gets me going. I'm also fortunate enough to take vacation and take a little hiatus.

Lil' Kim

#3. I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film ... I can't sit still.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#4. Free time keeps me going.

Gus Van Sant

#5. For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

Diane Lane

#6. There are a lot of good people going to Hell, and a lot of bad people like you and me going to Heaven!

David Berg

#7. I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was ... you.

J.R. Ward

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

Lisa Leslie

#9. I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

Gerard Way

#10. Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

Dave Chappelle

#11. 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

#12. For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Alexandra Paul

#13. Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.

Diego Klattenhoff

#14. I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

Ann Beattie

#15. The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

John Cusack

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

Etta James

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

Eric Davis

#18. I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

Josh Beckett

#19. 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

#20. One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

Mark Twain

#21. 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

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

Lynsey Addario

#23. It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.

Michaela Dorfmeister

#24. To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

Bobby Vinton

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that the security of the nation is the first duty of any government but at the same time for me going to war would always be the last resort. I would exhaust all other opportunities first.

Andrea Leadsom

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

Bonnie Langford

#31. There's no point in me going to mixers and getting attached to people when I'm only going to be there nine months. *

Jenny Han

#32. I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

Blythe Danner

#33. My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

Garrett Atkins

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

LeBron James

#37. I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

Cara Delevingne

#38. For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

Gabby Douglas

#39. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Steve Jobs

#40. 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

#41. I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

Topher Grace

#42. You keep me going when i feel like a flat tyre
you do my head right, like a hair dryer
can i call you my machanic since you change my mood and get me feeling like i have got a spare tyre.

Mohlalefi J Motsima

#43. It's the lifestyle of easy money, fast cars and supermodels that keep me going.

Christopher Tin

#44. From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer ... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

Katherine Jenkins

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

Phil Donahue

#46. Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves ,

Boris Vian

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

Maceo Parker

#48. Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.

Philip Larkin

#49. And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that kept me going was the Marines I served with and the thought of coming home, I started feeling like I wanted to go back. Because fuck all this.

Phil Klay

#50. I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!

Dita Von Teese

#51. For me going out to party never meant drinking or taking drugs.

Pedro Winter

#52. Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Alanis Morissette

#53. No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

Tim Daly

#54. Yeah. I guess I'm a color-inside-the-lines girl. Worse, really - I'd rather shade inside the lines with a nice, light 4H pencil. Something dark like a 5B or 6B? That's me going nuts. He laughed, stretching out his long legs

Jenn Bennett

#55. [My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.

Charli XCX

#56. The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#57. In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

Bill Frisell

#58. That was just like a ride," he said. "Did you see me going around in there? Like a fun house, right? Like an amusement park. I ride all those rides. I'm used to that sort of thing. I sit right up front.

Janet Evanovich

#59. To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

Gordie Howe

#60. You're keeping me going, Lara Jean. Josh looks at me and I feel it all, every memory, every moment we've ever shared.

Jenny Han

#61. I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it.

Alan Moore

#62. Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

Sam Bradford

#63. It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

Nia Long

#64. Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.

Ledisi

#65. A couple of weeks before the 1992 Houston Open, I was probably as low as I could get confidence-wise. I didn't think I was going to go any further, and then, out of nowhere, I won that week. That kind of got me going.

Fred Funk

#66. I just always had energy and my energy came from G-O-D! But I never needed anyone to get me going because I always had that energy.

Tommy McDonald

#67. I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me ... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.

Chris Tucker

#68. I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.

Katrina Kaif

#69. My face was growing hot, but I kept talking. "You're the only one who believes in me most of the time."

He shook his head. "You keep us going. Everybody knows that."

"But you're the one who keeps me going. You're what I'm fighting for in all this.

Tarah Benner

#70. I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

Terry Pratchett

#71. You don't want to keep giving yourself a sugar spike and then crash and get exhausted and need coffee because you shoot for a long time. On set, I eat a lot of peanut butter and apples, things that have actual energy and protein in them to keep me going.

Allison Williams

#72. I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

Loretta Lynn

#73. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#74. Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

Bruce Forsyth

#75. In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

Weili Dai

#76. I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

John O'Keefe

#77. The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#78. For me, it was faith that kept me going when I wanted to give up. I knew that God meant for me to fulfill a purpose in life.

Sarah Darer Littman

#79. I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of permanent rage, which weeps at times from impotence, but which is constant.

Gustave Flaubert

#80. I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.

Peter Ham

#81. There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

Shelley Long

#82. Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

Adolf Hitler

#83. The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#84. I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.

Mickey Rooney

#85. My fan mail is what keeps me going.

Lil' Kim

#86. I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Elizabeth Wilson

#87. It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.

Reggie Evans

#88. I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Julia Stiles

#89. I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

Nicolas Winding Refn

#90. I've had a lot of support from every corner of my life and my audience, to pretty much do close to what I want. I don't have unlimited time or money to execute my wildest dreams but I have enough get up and go to keep me going.

Joel Plaskett

#91. Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

Lewis Black

#92. When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

Jean Plaidy

#93. That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

Janet Jackson

#94. For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

Stephan Pastis

#95. I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

Pattie Boyd

#96. I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

Gerard Butler

#97. I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.

Kurt Fuller

#98. Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Madeleine Peyroux

#99. What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me,
Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take
me,
Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
Scattering it freely forever.

Walt Whitman

#100. When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

Cicely Tyson