Ernest Shackleton Quotes

By endurance we conquer.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

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

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

Optimism is true moral courage.

When things are easy, I hate it.

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.

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

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 a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.