Quotes on Lifeboats

Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.