Ernest Shackleton Quotes

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• Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly,…
• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
• A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
• From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
• I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling…
• Optimism is the true moral courage
• I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown.…
• I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
• I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
• If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.
• When things are easy, I hate it.
• Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
• If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
• The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing…
• We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
• After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have…
• Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to…
• I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not…
• 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…
• (Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant…

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