If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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By endurance we conquer.
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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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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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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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Optimism is true moral courage.
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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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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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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When things are easy, I hate it.
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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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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.
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