If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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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If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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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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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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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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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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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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Optimism is true moral courage.
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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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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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By endurance we conquer.
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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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When things are easy, I hate it.
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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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 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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