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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONTeachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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By endurance we conquer.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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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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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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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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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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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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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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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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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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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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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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 seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
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