By endurance we conquer.
ERNEST SHACKLETONBy endurance we conquer.
ERNEST SHACKLETONDifficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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 SHACKLETONIf I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWhen things are easy, I hate it.
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 SHACKLETONOptimism is true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETONA man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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 SHACKLETONFrom the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWe had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
ERNEST SHACKLETONSuperhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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 SHACKLETONOptimism is the true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETON