Difficulties 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.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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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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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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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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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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When things are easy, I hate it.
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By endurance we conquer.
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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 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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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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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