Quotes About Keeping Going

#1. I clung to the dream like a lifeline, the only thing worth keeping going for. That was why I had agreed to come here. I'd always said I would sell my soul for a pony of my own.

Kate Lattey

#2. My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

Susan Crandall

#3. The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
terms ... Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

Seamus Heaney

#4. My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

Sara Blakely

#5. If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see
what makes the human heart happy?
Is it art or is it sex?
Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going
from next thing to next thing
to next thing to next thing
to next to next to next to next
pulsating stupidly to outlast time?

Dan Chiasson

#6. Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

Maxine Kumin

#7. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

Sylvester Stallone

#9. If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

Rita Dove

#10. They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

Casey Stengel

#11. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

#12. I'm going to take it slow this time. We're going to burn every stroke, every touch, and every kiss into our skin so when we're back together, it will only then just be cooling. While we're apart, we'll still be keeping each other warm.

Mia Sheridan

#13. Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

Napoleon Hill

#14. As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

Frances O'Grady

#15. I love you. I love you and it sucks because now I'm going to lose my job and all our kids are to have red hair and I want at least one of them to be blonde, but they'll probably all have red hair and you're keeping secrets from me and I love you.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#16. Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. Keeping him in here is like snuggling up to a bomb, content that it's not going to explode simply because you can still hear it ticking.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.

Martha N. Beck

#19. Just because someone doesn't act or look unhappy doesn't mean their lives are perfect." He raises his eyebrows. "There's this method of dealing with things that involves keeping your chin up. Knowing whatever crap you're dealing with right now isn't going to last forever. All things pass.

Kelley York

#20. Putting his mouth close to her ear, he said, I'm going to ride you raw, baby, but you won't care. It's going to feel so good, all you'll be able to think about is getting me back inside you. Keeping me here, packed up tight and deep, screwing into you so hard you go hoarse from your screams ...

Rhyannon Byrd

#21. Life is the best and only timekeeper.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#22. The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

Henry Hazlitt

#23. I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

Natasha Lyonne

#24. The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.

Bob Colacello

#25. I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Robert Morgan

#26. Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!

Colin Salmon

#27. Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.

Haruki Murakami

#28. It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#29. The combination of having to cooperate, the pleasure of keeping it going and the demonstration of superiority are at the heart of Greek life. You collaborate and compete at the same time.

John Mole

#30. It's not about keeping up the population, it's about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don't just end.

Isaac Marion

#31. The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

Robert Frost

#32. She was damned if she was going to let a little thing like decapitation stand in the way of keeping him.

Jane Timm Baxter

#33. I didn't end up going bankrupt ... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

Vanilla Ice

#34. And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up - and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

Gerald Hausman

#35. Startled, I flinched "What are you doing?"
"Keeping you from going postal."
"You're doing it wrong.

L.B. Gregg

#36. I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.

Madchen Amick

#37. Cats are good at keeping clean [ ... ] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really bad. So today we're going to do things the pig way, okay?

Chris Kurtz

#38. We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.

Nnedi Okorafor

#39. After one last kiss, she stepped away, wrapping his jacket tightly around her. "I'm keeping the coat."
"Okay."
"I'm going to wear it to bed."
"Okay."
"With nothing on underneath it."
Winking, she slipped inside, leaving him on the porch with that mental image ringing through his head.

J.M. Darhower

#40. If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

Phil Lesh

#41. Consistency is important in keeping a habit going. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't even let the good be the enemy of the just barely okay.

Daria Sockey

#42. I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

Demetri Martin

#43. You may not know it but the keeping of a large house by one girl is the hardest work going on earth. I heard there's fire in hell but I'll bet the Devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain't gonna clean itself.

Catherynne M Valente

#44. In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

Raymond E. Feist

#45. True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Robert Reich

#46. Have you ever noticed?
people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Donald Antrim

#47. Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

Mary Pierce

#48. And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

Aleister Crowley

#49. The moment was gone; he saw it going. He did not try to hold on to it. He knew he was part of it, not it of him. He was in its keeping.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#50. As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#51. At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

Mehmet Oz

#52. Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis ... Don't be afraid of putting on colour ... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Camille Pissarro

#53. Every bone in my body was crying out for rest, but I knew if I stopped, and perhaps slept, I would die. I had to keep going. It was strange, but the thirst which was killing me was also the driving force keeping me on this long, desperate march.

Marcus Luttrell

#54. In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.

Sarah Waters

#55. I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

Gerry Beckley

#56. Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Robert Frost

#57. I'm keeping my socks on until I know what you're going to do.

C. Mack Lewis

#58. I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

Patrick Swayze

#59. Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Hugh Laurie

#60. I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

Keke Palmer

#61. Hunger limits you because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping the food if you do get your hands on some, and not knowing when you are going to eat next.

Saroo Brierley

#62. North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

John Bolton

#63. John Kerry keeping a low profile this week. He said he wanted to get away and go someplace where no one would expect to see him. So I guess he showed up at his old seat in the Senate. Nobody's going to look for him there.

Jay Leno

#64. All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going

Amie Kaufman

#65. Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.

Meek Mill

#66. It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

Mark Twain

#67. Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

John Hall

#68. When I feel nervous, anxious, and out of sync with everything going on around me, I pick a book. She just seems to have that power to calm me; probably by her keeping me focused or her just being simply intriguing.

Ufuoma Apoki

#69. There is not point keeping up with the Joneses if they're going someplace you don't want to go.

Michael Hyatt

#70. When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Ann Beattie

#71. Your mama finds you like that, she's going to pitch a fit."
"The only way she'd find out is if you told her I'd come out here with you, and then she'd be too angry at you to yell at me."
"Guess we're partners in crime, then.

Jodi Picoult

#72. He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold. "But," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Napoleon Hill

#73. First thing we need to do," said Bean, "is split up." "No," said Petra. "I've done this before, Petra. Going into hiding. Keeping from getting caught." "And if we're together we're too identifiable, la la la," she said. "Saying 'la la la' doesn't mean it isn't true.

Orson Scott Card

#74. It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

Prince William

#75. When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#76. Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Albert Einstein

#77. We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

Janet E. Smith

#78. It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.

Nigella Lawson

#79. My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

Jack Dangermond

#80. Keeping pushing, Andrei, and you and I are going to play a game. (Esperetta)
And what game is that, Princess? (Andrei)
Find the Ball in My Hand. (Esperetta)
I don't see a ball, Princess. (Andrei)
Oh, you will, just as soon as I snap it off your body. (Esperetta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#81. You don't trust me yet, and you shouldn't as we've only just met. But you will come to trust me, and when that happens, you'll give yourself into my care and keeping. When you do that, I will give you what you most want. What you need. And I'm going to love every damn minute.

Maya Banks

#82. I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

Kelly Bishop

#83. That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

Franklin Raines

#84. I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

Janet Jackson

#85. They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

Afrika Bambaataa

#86. 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

#87. I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities. Appearances can go hang!

L.M. Montgomery

#88. When you get up in front of a group of people, you make a contract with them; you promise them, "I am going to deliver value X." Every once in a while, you have to say, "See, I remember; I am keeping my promise.

Leonard Peikoff

#89. I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

Kathy Lette

#90. I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

David Ginola

#91. Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Peter Diamandis

#92. Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?"
Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking."
Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?"
Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking."
Nudge: "Cooking ... food?"
Max: "Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps!

James Patterson

#93. What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

Bernie Siegel

#94. We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

Barack Obama

#95. On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Charles Schwab

#96. I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly - though not exclusively - who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

Zainab Salbi

#97. Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.

Reba McEntire

#98. I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

Ted Allen

#99. I don't care about my face! I'm tired of being stupid, and everybody keeping me stupid just for the sake of my face. Even if it means I have to run off and live in the wild caves with a bag over my head, I still want to know what's going on. I need to know.

Frances Hardinge

#100. I need to get my lips around your clit. I'm going to suck that little bud until you pass out. You've been keeping her from me, but time's up, sweetheart. She's mine.

Tessa Bailey