Ernest Shackleton

By endurance we conquer.

— Ernest Shackleton

When things are easy, I hate it.

— Ernest Shackleton

Optimism is true moral courage.

— Ernest Shackleton

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

— Ernest Shackleton

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

— Ernest Shackleton

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

— Ernest Shackleton

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

— Ernest Shackleton

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

— Ernest Shackleton

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

— Ernest Shackleton

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

— Ernest Shackleton

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

— Ernest Shackleton

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the…

— Ernest Shackleton

“Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition…

— Ernest Shackleton

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had…

— Ernest Shackleton

“The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and…

— Ernest Shackleton

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be…

— Ernest Shackleton

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out…

— Ernest Shackleton

“ i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and…

— Ernest Shackleton

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the…

— Ernest Shackleton

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on…

— Ernest Shackleton

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of…

— Ernest Shackleton

Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that…

— Ernest Shackleton

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme…

— Ernest Shackleton

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will…

— Ernest Shackleton

“We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to…

— Ernest Shackleton

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the…

— Ernest Shackleton

“The articles had frozen stiff during the night, and the owners considered, it appeared, that this state of affairs provided them with…

— Ernest Shackleton

“All the dogs except eight had been named. I do not know who had been responsible for some of the names, which…

— Ernest Shackleton

“A strange occurrence was the sudden appearance of eight emperor penguins from a crack 100 yds. away at the moment when the…

— Ernest Shackleton

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and…

— Ernest Shackleton

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

— Ernest Shackleton

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

— Ernest Shackleton