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.
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.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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By endurance we conquer.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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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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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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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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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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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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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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When things are easy, I hate it.
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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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