Optimism is true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOptimism is true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONBy endurance we conquer.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI 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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONA man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOne feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
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 SHACKLETONDifficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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 SHACKLETONWhen things are easy, I hate it.
ERNEST SHACKLETONFrom the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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 SHACKLETONOptimism is the true moral courage.
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 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 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 SHACKLETON