Ernest Shackleton

“By endurance we conquer.”

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

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

“Optimism is true moral courage.”

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

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

“The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reversals and apparent disaster.”

“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”

“I seemed to vow to myself that someday 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.”

“Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience.”

“We were a speck in the midst of an overwhelming emptiness.”

“Our food lies ahead and death stalks us from behind.”

“I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of expeditionary work.”

“Men are not made in the same mould.”