Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETONDifficulties are just things to overcome after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETONThe 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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI 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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWe had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
ERNEST SHACKLETONAfter 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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWhen 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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONBy endurance we conquer.
ERNEST SHACKLETONNow 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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONSuperhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
ERNEST SHACKLETONFrom the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
ERNEST SHACKLETONNo 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
ERNEST SHACKLETONI 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.
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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOptimism is the true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONIf you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
ERNEST SHACKLETON