If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
ERNEST SHACKLETONFrom the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
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One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
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No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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By endurance we conquer.
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends. I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last to the North Pole.
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