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Creativity Quote by Lesley Gore

"Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through"

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There is a kind of stubborn, unglamorous optimism baked into this: not the Instagram kind, but the day-to-day discipline of staying upright. Lesley Gore frames survival as motion ("keep chugging along") and posture ("keep a positive attitude"), two things you can still control when everything else feels like it’s sliding out from under you. The phrasing is almost aggressively plain. That’s the point. It’s a pep talk stripped of self-mythology, more garage-band van than guru.

The subtext is that pain doesn’t negotiate. Problems aren’t puzzles you solve once; they’re weights you carry until you learn the route. "Face them" lands like a corrective to avoidance culture, but it’s also an argument against the fantasy of a clean bypass. Gore isn’t promising transformation or triumph. She’s promising passage. "Otherwise you don't get through" is less inspiration than physics: avoidance doesn’t pause the clock.

Context matters here. Gore became famous young, in a pop machine that sold teenage feelings as product, then lived through decades in which women performers were expected to be palatable first and complicated later. She also navigated life as a lesbian in an era when visibility came with professional risk. Read that way, the quote isn’t generic positivity; it’s a veteran’s realism. It suggests resilience as a practiced craft, learned under pressure, repeated until it becomes a habit - a way to keep going without pretending it doesn’t hurt.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gore, Lesley. (2026, January 17). Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/really-you-just-gotta-keep-chugging-along-and-60736/

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Gore, Lesley. "Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/really-you-just-gotta-keep-chugging-along-and-60736/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/really-you-just-gotta-keep-chugging-along-and-60736/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Lesley Gore (May 2, 1946 - February 16, 2015) was a Musician from USA.

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