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.
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 SHACKLETONI have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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 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 SHACKLETONWhen things are easy, I hate it.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOptimism is the true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOptimism is true moral courage.
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 SHACKLETONI thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWe had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
ERNEST SHACKLETONBy endurance we conquer.
ERNEST SHACKLETONIf I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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 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 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 SHACKLETON