When things are easy, I hate it.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI 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.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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By endurance we conquer.
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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
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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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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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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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Optimism is true moral courage.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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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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I do not know what ‘moss’ stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge… I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
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I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
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