Optimism is true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOptimism is true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONA man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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 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 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 SHACKLETONOne feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOptimism is the true moral courage.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETONIf I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
ERNEST SHACKLETONDifficulties are just things to overcome after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETONIf you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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 SHACKLETONSuperhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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 SHACKLETON