John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Desperate situations always lead to desperate acts.

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.

When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.

I just can't surrender. I can't start something and then surrender because of political reasons. I just don't do that, and that goes back to me, why I keep running when I should probably take it easy, even though I have no hobbies, and enjoy the rest of my life.

No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.

I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.