Men are not made from easy victories, but based on great defeats Sir Ernest Shackleton More Quotes by Sir Ernest Shackleton More Quotes From Sir Ernest Shackleton Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour. Sir Ernest Shackleton If it was an easier job, we would give it to a lesser man Sir Ernest Shackleton We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. Sir Ernest Shackleton
