I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion. Ernest Shackleton More Quotes by Ernest Shackleton More Quotes From Ernest Shackleton 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. The only true failure would be not to explore at all. Ernest Shackleton reach-out would-be believe Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. Ernest Shackleton smart clever funny 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, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly. Ernest Shackleton motivational integrity lying By endurance we conquer. Ernest Shackleton conquer endurance If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going. Ernest Shackleton fellows leader looks Difficulties are just things to overcome after all. Ernest Shackleton difficulty overcoming Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success. Ernest Shackleton loneliness men order I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure. Ernest Shackleton lines Optimism is true moral courage. Ernest Shackleton optimism happiness life When things are easy, I hate it. Ernest Shackleton i-hate hate easy No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man Ernest Shackleton flower running mean Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. Ernest Shackleton umpires classic effort A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground. Ernest Shackleton vision leadership men We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. Ernest Shackleton naked soul men 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 I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. Ernest Shackleton axes ice snow (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 danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. Ernest Shackleton journey talking men 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. Ernest Shackleton sky clouds men Optimism is the true moral courage Ernest Shackleton moral-courage optimism moral I 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 moss rolling school After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea Ernest Shackleton expeditions british sea
