Neil Cross Quotes

A man that runs away may fight again.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

When all else fails, start running!

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.

You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side...

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.