Best Quotes by Ernest Shackleton (Top 10)

  1. Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
  2. 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.
  3. A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
  4. Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
  5. We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 of a mighty giant below.
  8. 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.
  9. I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
  10. If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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