I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
I want to keep doing what I’m doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I’m afraid I’ll miss out on a smash record.
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
I signed on as the clown, and, by golly, I’ll keep up my end of the bargain.
Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
People strike out. I strike out a lot – it happens. Just got to keep working.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
I like fish, and I also like bear’s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
I always feel like I have to keep going. You can sit back and say, ‘Maybe I can stop.’ But then you’re yesterday, and I love tomorrow.
All I’m trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: ‘It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
If the Lord comes and burns – as you say he will – I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.
You just have to keep the same mentality of trying to prove yourself every single day. But it’s a lot of easier when you have people telling you how bad you are than when people are telling you how good you are.
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don’t know about. Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.’
Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.
Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.
Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for the tyranny of compounding costs can devastate the miracle of compounding returns.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.
I’m gonna have some nights when it’s not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it’s just gonna come. I’m gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything’s gonna pay off.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
It’s always good to change and keep things fresh, whether it’s a hairstyle or wardrobe.
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
Don’t keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That’s why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.
