To Keep Going Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

Katharine Hepburn

#3. I've said many times in the past that my career's not going to go on much longer; I'm not going to keep going and riding until I'm in my 30s and things like this.

Casey Stoner

#4. We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.

Heidi R. Kling

#5. 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

#6. I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

Hector Elizondo

#7. Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#8. Not sure how much longer she can continue her fight for the children or how much more of her there is to give, she pledged to keep going until she no longer can.

Kay Bratt

#9. There are great people in life who give you inspiration to keep going and get through the hard times. I have been blessed to have such role models in my life. It would be a privilege if achieving my dream could inspire the next generation.

Michelle Payne

#10. But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.

Glen Cook

#12. The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

Matthew Quick

#13. 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

#14. I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped - when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Chip Kidd

#15. I love what I do, and I don't think I'm the guy who can do, like, a movie a year and that's it. I don't know what I'd do! I've already put stuff independently on the Internet cause I'm bored! I just want to keep going!

Terry Crews

#16. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

Stephen Richards

#17. 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

#18. It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

Big Sean

#19. I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

Willie Mays

#20. Flying was no cure for want of sleep. The brain wanted time to recycle: when it became all one long, uninterrupted day, the ability to keep going and to keep thinking was no warrant it was healty even for Superman.-Superman

C.J. Cherryh

#21. I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

Lawrence Bossidy

#22. I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

Lily Collins

#24. I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that.

Mary Tyler Moore

#25. I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free ... only I was cruel. I had the chance to do it, and I took it. Why is that bad, Vyme? Unless, of course, that's what being free means.

Samuel R. Delany

#26. My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

Mike Brearley

#27. It's a struggle but you have to keep going.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I don't know why people feel unhappy when the curve of a graph fails to keep going up, but they do. Even when we find something we'd like to reduce, such as highway fatalities, it doesn't always sound as though we had our heart in it.

E.B. White

#31. I just try to keep going and work on projects that are exciting to me, with people I respect and enjoy and want to work with. That takes me in different directions sometimes, but it's all been a pretty good ride.

Tom McCarthy

#32. I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don't keep going.

Dan John

#33. Increasing your speed means making your mind and body more alert, and therefore more likely to keep going strong for longer periods of time.

Inspire3 Publishing

#34. I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

Jimmy Buffett

#35. I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

Joe Strummer

#36. You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

Jacob Lusk

#37. It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.

Dan Auerbach

#38. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

Robert Kiyosaki

#39. I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

Gary Hume

#40. I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

Idris Elba

#41. Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

Robert M. Pirsig

#42. We just had to keep going and hope that whoever was in charge up top got his act together or started receiving pro-zombie messages from a higher power-living or divine.It really didn't matter at this point.

Lia Habel

#43. Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

Philip Rieff

#44. What if there was a time when I was going through hell too, but I didn't have the courage to keep going? So I just stopped. Pressed pause. What if I'm still on pause?

Jandy Nelson

#45. Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you're faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

Tanya Masse

#46. 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

#47. It was then that I had a choice. I could cry and lay down and die, or I could use what I had learned from him to keep going and fully live.

Aimee DuFresne

#48. If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same emotion, which is worry. Or love!

Lisa Scottoline

#49. He will experience that prickle, that shiver of disgust that afflicts him in both his happiest and most wretched moments, the one that asks him who he thinks he is to inconvenience so many people, to think he has the right to keep going when even his own body tells him he should stop.

Hanya Yanagihara

#50. I had been working predominantly and steadily as a dancer, so after awhile, you don't have to audition. I was just in that world, and I had certain goals I wanted to reach, but I definitely always wanted to keep going and challenge myself and become an actor.

Kenny Wormald

#51. I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

Anne-Marie Duff

#52. A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

Miriam Toews

#53. Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

Fauja Singh

#54. I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

Veronica Roth

#55. Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear - and how to keep going even when that fear rose like a howling beast inside.

Cynthia Eden

#56. 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

#57. I'm going to keep going until I succeed - or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

J.K. Rowling

#58. You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

Gwen Bristow

#59. You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Lauren Bacall

#60. I mean, I'm not naive enough to imagine that anyone can be satisfied indefinitely by memories, especially if he's young and full of life, like you. I did my best to help you build up a reserve to keep going on.

Christopher Isherwood

#61. I welcome challenges. I like challenges. It gives me a reason to keep going.

Rose Namajunas

#62. I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

James Frey

#63. You need luck to keep going. It takes more than skill to stay alive.

Walter Farley

#64. 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

#65. I am going to keep going untill I succeed or die.
Don't think I don't know how this might end.
I've known it for years.

-Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

#66. I salute all workingwomen everywhere! You inspire me to keep going!

Megan Alexander

#67. If I could go back to do some things over, I would in a heartbeat. But that ain't reality. It ain't life. You got to forgive yourself before you can move on. When you forgive yourself the regret gets lighter and lighter and you manage to keep going.

Joe Hart

#68. I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.

Famke Janssen

#69. 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

#70. I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.

Lindsay Hartley

#71. When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

Carol Vorderman

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Mary Leakey

#75. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.

Neil Gaiman

#76. I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

Danny Brown

#77. I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

Christina Aguilera

#78. I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings' until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.

Evan Goldberg

#79. Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!

Eric Thomas

#80. We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

Scott Avett

#81. Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.

Robert Kiyosaki

#82. Whenever you feel like giving up, think about why you started in the first place. If that still matters, so does the need to keep going.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#83. It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Corita Kent

#84. wanted to know what war was like for those who had been left behind: the women who managed to keep going even as their world fell apart.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#85. 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

#86. And what was she begging for anyway? For him to stop, or to keep going until she dissolved? She

Jennifer Bene

#87. A semicolon is where a writer can choose to end the sentence," she said, tucking a lock of brown hair behind her ear. "But they don't. The story goes on. It's a symbol of hope. To keep going." She smiled tremulously. "Sometimes I need that reminder.

Emma Scott

#88. 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

#89. Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.

Terry Fox

#90. You're still alive, Mags. You might not feel like it. But you have to keep going. -Tanna

Kristina McBride

#91. I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

Elizabeth Strout

#92. Smears don't have much staying power on their own because they deviate from the foundations of reality (what actually happened). They require constant energy from our opponents to keep going. The truth has a habit of reasserting itself.

Julian Assange

#93. It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Janet Guthrie

#94. You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.

Joseph Conrad

#95. Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Katee Sackhoff

#96. I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Robin Trower

#97. 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

#98. It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached.
Kristie Leigh Maguire

Vicki M. Taylor

#99. I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#100. The best thing about this journey is I know I have it in me to keep going. Battle-tested, you know? Now, my heart laughs at the word 'quit'.

Ace Antonio Hall