Keep Going Quotes - Page 6

• Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Safe, Never Quit

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Father, Never Quit, Quitting

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• I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

  Rory Stewart

  Scotland, Leaving, Magic

  Rory Stewart (2009). “The Places In Between”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Lonely, Art, Thinking

  "Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint" by Shane Hickey, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.

  Fernando Valenzuela

  Baseball, Play, I Can

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• About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

  Lev Grossman

  Smart, Perfect, Pages

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• The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.

  Libba Bray

  Struggle, Fall, Blow

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

  Dean Young

  Sea, Enough, Slaughterhouses

  Dean Young (1999). “First Course in Turbulence”

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• 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

  Success, Sports, Desire

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• He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

  Lee Freedman

  Nice, Lying, Long

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• I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.

  Tila Tequila

  Believe, Moving, Calling

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• I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

  Ajay Devgan

  Believe, Successful, Never Quit

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• We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Teamwork, Effort, Saint

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• I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

  Graeme Souness

  Jobs, Optimistic, Thinking

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Fire, Rereading

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• God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Moving, Night

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• But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

  Ed Rendell

  Running, Long, Pennsylvania

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• If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.

  Hoda Kotb

  Fall, Trust Me, Get Up

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• I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Able, Used, Know How

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Fire, Mind

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• There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Pain, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.645, Macmillan

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• Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.

  Pete Holmes

  People, Watches, Matter

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• ...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Eye, Littles

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: Number 9 in series”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.

  Alice Sebold

  Looks, Lovely Bones

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