Quotes about going
A collection of quotes on the topic of going, doing, people, likeness.
Quotes about going

Translation source: https://kaerb.tumblr.com/post/170346243034/if-youre-going-to-set-goals-its-better-for (user-translation) from 31 January 2018.
Annotation: This quote is excerpted from an interview filmed in Yokohama on 22 November 2009 after an official practice at Japanese Junior Nationals, aired 23 December 2009 in 2009全日本フィギュアスケートジュニア選手権大会 (2009 All Japan Figure Skating Junior Championships) by BS Fuji.
Page: 124.
Original: (ja) 目標を書くなら大きいほうがいい。具体的に書いたほうが達成しやすい。けっこう理数系です。

CBC interview with Scott Russell
Original: (ja) いろんな方々が僕の演技を見た時に勇気を感じたとか、何か幸せになったとか、そういったことを言ってくれて、それが自分にとってのスケートのモチベーションだと思ってますし、それが僕が今スケートを最後までやり通す意味になってるなって思います。

“If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?”

From song The Show Must Go On.
Despite the fact that Freddie Mercury is dying, Brian May acknowledges Freddie’s bravery and perseverance, as he is continuing to produce music despite his illness. Mercury recorded this song the year prior to his death. He was barely walking, but continued to show dedication to his music.

“There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Variant: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

“Does anybody like dolphins? Don’t go to SeaWorld.”
Speaking at One Direction's concert in San Diego (9 July 2015) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34123070
Saturday Night Live (1993)

I'm "Jackson".
Televised Interview with Barbara Walters(1998)

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)

Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/harry-styles-opens-up-about-famous-flings-honest-new-lp-w476928
Context: Who's to say that young girls who like pop music – short for popular, right? – have worse musical taste than a 30-year-old hipster guy? That's not up to you to say. Music is something that's always changing. There's no goal posts. Young girls like the Beatles. You gonna tell me they're not serious? How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going. Teenage-girl fans – they don't lie. If they like you, they're there. They don't act 'too cool.' They like you, and they tell you. Which is sick.

on Marilyn Horne's influence; 2005, as quoted by Zachary Lewis https://solokeyboard.typepad.com/Music2005Final.doc and edited into the Oberlin Review article The Marilyn Horne Experience http://www2.oberlin.edu/con/connews/2006/of_note.html#3

Variant: If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Source: Guitar Chord Songbook - Bob Marley
Teacher

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him" ( Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9 https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf). A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator.
Misattributed
Variant: If you're going through hell, keep going
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/

“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”

“Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.”
Source: Marilyn Manson Talking

and that's not what I wanted.
The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See (2002)

Variant: Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
Source: Holes

Quoted in David Carr, "Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&, New York Times (2008-04-20)

As quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html (2005), by Larry Schwartz, ESPN SportsCentury

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)

“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, entry in Mozart's souvenir album (1787-04-11) from Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon [Harper-Collins, 1966, ISBN 0-060-92692-9], p. 312.
Misattributed

“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5

Give All to Love, st. 4
1840s, Poems (1847)

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)

Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes, it is letting go.”

“There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. 74
2000s

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

“Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.”

"The Man Who Would Be Queen" in Melody Maker (2 May 1981) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_05-02-1981_-_Melody_Maker.

Other

At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal (11 December 1945); Nuremberg Diary p. 66, 1947 edition.
Nuremberg Diary (1947)

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm “Those Damn Nazis: Why Are We Socialists?”
Written by Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher (1932). “Those Damned Nazis,” (Nazi propaganda pamphlet).
1930s

“My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?”
"Role Model" (Track 9).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)

As quoted by Else Gebel, in letter to Robert Scholl (November, 1946). Original German text. http://www.mythoselser.de/texts/scholl-gebel.htm


“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”
Source: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
“When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies… I'm gonna play and dance and sing.”

Introduction, p. 1
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

“Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
Variant: Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.
Source: Dracula

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1